Who are our teachers? Do we know them very well beyond the school compound or they’re just our teachers? How much respect do we accord to our teachers?
Teachers are human too. A God’s being who were brought up in this world to teach. They come in many form and disguise.
Some are regulars teachers serving primary and secondary schools. Some serves in the university and some teach in dilapidated wooden house in ‘sekolah pondok’. There are many who also teaches in university.
Things are not easy clamed some teachers. They’re the educator and they’re also the disciplinarian. They carry more roles than our parents and spend more time with us but yet they’re also first to be blame for their student’s failure.
Are they well paid to handle all this stressful situation? As far as I can remember we students have never been good to them. Stealing, skipping school, extortion, vandalism etc. You name it, we’ve done that. So back to the question, “Are they well paid?”
Are they well respected? My late grandfather always said that teachers are always prim and proper and they usually attract a lot of attention from ‘future parents in law’, pretty young ladies, and also children who would like to be like them. Those days teachers are well respected individuals. Every mom and dad wanted their children to be teachers and many wanted to marry off their daughters to teachers.
Kampung folks seek their opinion on almost anything. Children would carry their bag at school. Whenever there’s confrontation, they’ll be the first to be call upon to settle it.
But how is the situation today? Teacher is considered a last resort career. Many will only choose teacher-ship when they don’t have much choice. When all attempts have been exhausted, then they’ll turn to teaching profession.
We do get some bad apples among teachers too. But fortunately this numbers are kept low. Like any other profession, you do get trouble makers who’ll tarnish the image of this teaching profession.
Other than parents, teachers are our point of reference whenever we need some answers. What the government needs to do is to further enhance the benefits and remuneration package for teachers.
I hope the teachers today will take this profession seriously. They might not been paid as highly as their counterparts abroad but they do know for a fact that whenever they see a successful story, they know that other than parents, teachers contribute a lot to that success story.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Chin Peng: The Last Attempt!
I heard that there is an effort by “somebody”, asking Chin Peng, the former Communist party of Malaya’s leader to be “forgiven” and allowed to come back to Malaysia. Chin Peng was exiled by our government since Communist party of Malaya (CPA) had been banned due causing some dangerous activities which lead to insecurity of Malaysia.
Communist Party of Malaya was founded by 1930s. The party turned to Malayan People Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and it turns back to Communist Party of Malaya after the Japanese surrendered in World War II. They basically fought the Japanese at first as guerrilla “modus operandi”. Chin Peng leads the CPA, since he was the most senior leader after Lai Tek’s betrayal of being “double agent” for British and Japanese.
Chin Peng claimed to be responsible for killing civilians and some colonialist. Three plantation managers were killed by the Communist party of Malaysia. He denied the accusation, but I think he should responsible due his lead to the party. MPAJA also was claimed responsible for killing the Malays and Chinese ethnic in Malaysia. This unmerciful acts lead to Malayan colonial administration to declare a State of Emergency, and CPA was banned.
The civil war between the government of Malaya and CPA started on 1960 and it took a few years to end. Many of our soldiers, civilians and even Chinese were killed by the CPA during this period. The Royal Army of Malaysia successfully urged Chin Peng and his comrade guerillas to back off from Malaysia and they were totally exiled from Malaysia due to their sins! Chin Peng has live in exile since then.
There are some attempts that had been made by several “people” who denies the “sensitivity” of the victims of the attacks made by the Communist Party of Malaya. Thank God, the attempts were rejected by the High Court of Malaysia due to the sensitivity of Malaysian within that time.
But now, the attempt of bringing back Chin Peng is “voice” by somebody. He states that the reason is based on “humanitarian” grounds. “Humanitarian grounds”? What about the “humanitarian” of the victims of the CPA attacks? Are they are not “human” too? How about the sensitivity of their families? What if the “person” who calls the “forgiveness of Chin Peng” have a relatives which killed by Chin Peng’s comrades? Does he “count” on this?
He also claims that the Communism all around the world is no longer practice, and the communist was transformed to “economic-based struggles”. I could be agreed with this point. But, does he think about the “sins” of Chin Peng which leads to the death of many of our civilians? Do the families of the Royal armies who killed in the civil war will forgive Chin Peng? Will they easily “forgive and forget” the person who caused them grows without fathers, brothers or sons? Oh! Come on! Put yourself in their shoes.
I know that Chin Peng is no longer a threat to Malaysian security. He is 85 years old now and could no longer carry a rifle and shoot the people around. He is too old for that. But he is still a threat for my judgement. His mind is still a threat. By this age, he can say anything that he wanted. He could say lies about many things which could change the truth of Malaysia history. He could manipulate his so called “jungle experience” and try to portray to Malaysian as he is the “real” Malaysia independent leader! The story will be just the same as the tale of Raja Petra, “the real make up story teller”.
He will not loose anything by this age. Returning to Malaysia or just stay where he is will make no different to him or to the “person” who tries to bring him back now. But if he comes back to Malaysia, it will “hurt” and bring high “disturbance” on the sensitivity of victims of the attacks of the bloody Communist party of Malaya once upon a time ago. My advice is just stay where you are. Don’t come back or you will bring back another of problem to the government of Malaysia. Our government is quite busy at this time to think about Chin Peng’s. His bloody hands are still “covered with blood”!
I don’t have any idea about the reason of this “person” to bring Chin Peng back to Malaysia by this time. Is he tries to get media attentions? Or he is trying to get another “cheap publicity” to the public and to make sure that the public notice about his existence among the political leaders in this country. What a shame on him to make this call!
Communist Party of Malaya was founded by 1930s. The party turned to Malayan People Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and it turns back to Communist Party of Malaya after the Japanese surrendered in World War II. They basically fought the Japanese at first as guerrilla “modus operandi”. Chin Peng leads the CPA, since he was the most senior leader after Lai Tek’s betrayal of being “double agent” for British and Japanese.
Chin Peng claimed to be responsible for killing civilians and some colonialist. Three plantation managers were killed by the Communist party of Malaysia. He denied the accusation, but I think he should responsible due his lead to the party. MPAJA also was claimed responsible for killing the Malays and Chinese ethnic in Malaysia. This unmerciful acts lead to Malayan colonial administration to declare a State of Emergency, and CPA was banned.
The civil war between the government of Malaya and CPA started on 1960 and it took a few years to end. Many of our soldiers, civilians and even Chinese were killed by the CPA during this period. The Royal Army of Malaysia successfully urged Chin Peng and his comrade guerillas to back off from Malaysia and they were totally exiled from Malaysia due to their sins! Chin Peng has live in exile since then.
There are some attempts that had been made by several “people” who denies the “sensitivity” of the victims of the attacks made by the Communist Party of Malaya. Thank God, the attempts were rejected by the High Court of Malaysia due to the sensitivity of Malaysian within that time.
But now, the attempt of bringing back Chin Peng is “voice” by somebody. He states that the reason is based on “humanitarian” grounds. “Humanitarian grounds”? What about the “humanitarian” of the victims of the CPA attacks? Are they are not “human” too? How about the sensitivity of their families? What if the “person” who calls the “forgiveness of Chin Peng” have a relatives which killed by Chin Peng’s comrades? Does he “count” on this?
He also claims that the Communism all around the world is no longer practice, and the communist was transformed to “economic-based struggles”. I could be agreed with this point. But, does he think about the “sins” of Chin Peng which leads to the death of many of our civilians? Do the families of the Royal armies who killed in the civil war will forgive Chin Peng? Will they easily “forgive and forget” the person who caused them grows without fathers, brothers or sons? Oh! Come on! Put yourself in their shoes.
I know that Chin Peng is no longer a threat to Malaysian security. He is 85 years old now and could no longer carry a rifle and shoot the people around. He is too old for that. But he is still a threat for my judgement. His mind is still a threat. By this age, he can say anything that he wanted. He could say lies about many things which could change the truth of Malaysia history. He could manipulate his so called “jungle experience” and try to portray to Malaysian as he is the “real” Malaysia independent leader! The story will be just the same as the tale of Raja Petra, “the real make up story teller”.
He will not loose anything by this age. Returning to Malaysia or just stay where he is will make no different to him or to the “person” who tries to bring him back now. But if he comes back to Malaysia, it will “hurt” and bring high “disturbance” on the sensitivity of victims of the attacks of the bloody Communist party of Malaya once upon a time ago. My advice is just stay where you are. Don’t come back or you will bring back another of problem to the government of Malaysia. Our government is quite busy at this time to think about Chin Peng’s. His bloody hands are still “covered with blood”!
I don’t have any idea about the reason of this “person” to bring Chin Peng back to Malaysia by this time. Is he tries to get media attentions? Or he is trying to get another “cheap publicity” to the public and to make sure that the public notice about his existence among the political leaders in this country. What a shame on him to make this call!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
EASY LIFE WITH LESS THAN 1 RINGGIT.
How much is the value of our money today? What can we buy with 10 sen? And how far can we get with 50 sen? What can we eat with 1 ringgit? All in all that’s the value of our parent’s hard work then.
40 sen was my pocket money to school 25 years ago. With that money I can buy my self a plate of ‘mee goreng’ for 30 sen and a glass of ‘sirap’ for 10 sen during recess.
Back then with less than 100 ringgit you can get 3 sets of clothes and a pair of shoes for Baju Raya. And today a pair of ‘kasut raya’ will cost you more or maybe close to 100 ringgit.
I remember 18 years ago my mom used to sell cookies for Raya. Back then it was 10 ringgit for 100 pieces of cookies. Today I think it’ll cost you more than 25 ringgit for a few hundred grams of cookies.
I remember those days my father used to pay the petrol station 20 ringgit to fill up the tank. With that we managed to travel ‘balik kampung’ from Penang to Alor Setar. Today with 20 ringgit worth of petrol, it’ll probably take me as far as across Penang Bridge.
I remember then ‘ais krim Malaysia’ only cost me between 5-10 sen a piece. It’s still cheap today, somewhere between 20-50 sen a piece but it’s a bit smaller or should I say shorter in size.
Back then in Penang, the city council was the only local authority that operates public bus system. It was simply known as ‘Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang’ or in short M.P.P.P. (some call it ‘Monyet Panjat Pokok Pisang’). To travel from Air Itam to Komtar it’ll only cost us children 25 sen and 50 sen for adults.
One of the best ‘roti canai’ served in Penang only cost me 30 sen and ‘teh tarik’ was 40 sen in the 80s. And today ‘roti canai’ is hitting 1 ringgit mark and ‘teh tarik’ is hitting 1.50 ringgit.
I remember back then while walking home after a game of football at the ‘padang’, we would treat ourselves with a piece of ‘sengkuang’ (turnip) as big as our palm which cost us 10 sen. With 10 sen today, you probably get a piece of ‘sengkuang’ as big as your 10 sen coin.
Football boots back then was expensive. A branded pair will cost our parents between 50-80 ringgit. So we make do with 10 ringgit ‘but kicap’. And today I heard parents bought 200 ringgit football boots for their teenage son who can’t even kick properly.
I used to have 2 white shirts, a pair of olive green trouser and a pair of white canvas shoes for school. These must last me at least a whole year. Today, school going kids have a set for each weekdays and I don’t think school uniforms were more expensive back then.
That’s life in the 80s. It was cheap and full of fun. We create our own games. And due to this, we’re much more physically active. Everything cost less than 1 ringgit and we’re not exposed to fast food then. Mat Sentul was our idol with his brand of junk food advertisement like Kum Kum, Ding Dang, Tora, Nini and many others.
As kids we don’t have to worry much. We leave the worrying to our parents. They have to work hard to make our life better and more meaningful.
And now when it’s our turn to be parents, we leave the worrying to the government! They have to work hard to make our life better and more meaningful.
Isn’t it wonderful when you don’t have to worry about anything?
40 sen was my pocket money to school 25 years ago. With that money I can buy my self a plate of ‘mee goreng’ for 30 sen and a glass of ‘sirap’ for 10 sen during recess.
Back then with less than 100 ringgit you can get 3 sets of clothes and a pair of shoes for Baju Raya. And today a pair of ‘kasut raya’ will cost you more or maybe close to 100 ringgit.
I remember 18 years ago my mom used to sell cookies for Raya. Back then it was 10 ringgit for 100 pieces of cookies. Today I think it’ll cost you more than 25 ringgit for a few hundred grams of cookies.
I remember those days my father used to pay the petrol station 20 ringgit to fill up the tank. With that we managed to travel ‘balik kampung’ from Penang to Alor Setar. Today with 20 ringgit worth of petrol, it’ll probably take me as far as across Penang Bridge.
I remember then ‘ais krim Malaysia’ only cost me between 5-10 sen a piece. It’s still cheap today, somewhere between 20-50 sen a piece but it’s a bit smaller or should I say shorter in size.
Back then in Penang, the city council was the only local authority that operates public bus system. It was simply known as ‘Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang’ or in short M.P.P.P. (some call it ‘Monyet Panjat Pokok Pisang’). To travel from Air Itam to Komtar it’ll only cost us children 25 sen and 50 sen for adults.
One of the best ‘roti canai’ served in Penang only cost me 30 sen and ‘teh tarik’ was 40 sen in the 80s. And today ‘roti canai’ is hitting 1 ringgit mark and ‘teh tarik’ is hitting 1.50 ringgit.
I remember back then while walking home after a game of football at the ‘padang’, we would treat ourselves with a piece of ‘sengkuang’ (turnip) as big as our palm which cost us 10 sen. With 10 sen today, you probably get a piece of ‘sengkuang’ as big as your 10 sen coin.
Football boots back then was expensive. A branded pair will cost our parents between 50-80 ringgit. So we make do with 10 ringgit ‘but kicap’. And today I heard parents bought 200 ringgit football boots for their teenage son who can’t even kick properly.
I used to have 2 white shirts, a pair of olive green trouser and a pair of white canvas shoes for school. These must last me at least a whole year. Today, school going kids have a set for each weekdays and I don’t think school uniforms were more expensive back then.
That’s life in the 80s. It was cheap and full of fun. We create our own games. And due to this, we’re much more physically active. Everything cost less than 1 ringgit and we’re not exposed to fast food then. Mat Sentul was our idol with his brand of junk food advertisement like Kum Kum, Ding Dang, Tora, Nini and many others.
As kids we don’t have to worry much. We leave the worrying to our parents. They have to work hard to make our life better and more meaningful.
And now when it’s our turn to be parents, we leave the worrying to the government! They have to work hard to make our life better and more meaningful.
Isn’t it wonderful when you don’t have to worry about anything?
Monday, May 18, 2009
Penanti: A Political Gamble Permissable By Democratic System
So, BN has decided not to run for upcoming by- election. So far 4 parties have bought the forms to contest in the by- election. Are we going to see a contest or a walk over?
Contest or no contest, the show has to go on. Someone has to fill in the seat. But the question can only be answered on the 31st May 2009.
According to sources, this wasn’t the first time BN decided not to contest in the by-election. And one of the contests that they didn’t partake was also of the same circumstances as what we see today.
I see this by-election as just another political play by Anwar Ibrahim. There is no necessity to actually have a by-election.
The previous representative was made to step down due to numerous complaints against him. However ‘to further studies’ was use as an excuse for his stepping down.
Come on, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that ‘studies’ wasn’t the reason. If he has any intention to further his studies, he shouldn’t have contested in the general election.
He should have known that being a politician is not laughing matter. There are a lot of sacrifices that need to be made.
Back to the by-election, what sort of changes that the constituents expect from this by-election? Are they expecting significant changes like what been promised in the previous general election?
So far I don’t see any significant changes. So what? Are they expecting things and infrastructure to change significantly after this election?
I don’t see much change in Penanti except they’re getting a new representative soon. PKR has not been doing anything to change people’s perception on them.
Today many see PKR as a nuisance. They instigated fear and disharmony among Malaysians. I don’t expect from the independent candidates. They don’t have the financial will to pursue development agenda.
So what can the independent candidates promise for the Penanti-ans? Are they really serious about serving the rakyat? Or they’re just another group of who are trying to make big bucks from the flaws in our constitution?
I don’t agree with this by-election. I see this as a waste of time and human resources. In this trying time, we Malaysian should sit together and try to overcome the problems that we’re facing right now.
I hope we will learn from the by-election in Penanti. The government has to do something to prevent this form of abuse.
Before I forget, I think these phantom voters are from Penang.ad a dream last night. My dream hinted that BN is not going to contest in Penanti, but at the same time I still see a lot of buses from outstation. I hope these busesses are not carrying phantom voters.
Contest or no contest, the show has to go on. Someone has to fill in the seat. But the question can only be answered on the 31st May 2009.
According to sources, this wasn’t the first time BN decided not to contest in the by-election. And one of the contests that they didn’t partake was also of the same circumstances as what we see today.
I see this by-election as just another political play by Anwar Ibrahim. There is no necessity to actually have a by-election.
The previous representative was made to step down due to numerous complaints against him. However ‘to further studies’ was use as an excuse for his stepping down.
Come on, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that ‘studies’ wasn’t the reason. If he has any intention to further his studies, he shouldn’t have contested in the general election.
He should have known that being a politician is not laughing matter. There are a lot of sacrifices that need to be made.
Back to the by-election, what sort of changes that the constituents expect from this by-election? Are they expecting significant changes like what been promised in the previous general election?
So far I don’t see any significant changes. So what? Are they expecting things and infrastructure to change significantly after this election?
I don’t see much change in Penanti except they’re getting a new representative soon. PKR has not been doing anything to change people’s perception on them.
Today many see PKR as a nuisance. They instigated fear and disharmony among Malaysians. I don’t expect from the independent candidates. They don’t have the financial will to pursue development agenda.
So what can the independent candidates promise for the Penanti-ans? Are they really serious about serving the rakyat? Or they’re just another group of who are trying to make big bucks from the flaws in our constitution?
I don’t agree with this by-election. I see this as a waste of time and human resources. In this trying time, we Malaysian should sit together and try to overcome the problems that we’re facing right now.
I hope we will learn from the by-election in Penanti. The government has to do something to prevent this form of abuse.
Before I forget, I think these phantom voters are from Penang.ad a dream last night. My dream hinted that BN is not going to contest in Penanti, but at the same time I still see a lot of buses from outstation. I hope these busesses are not carrying phantom voters.
The Malay Dilemma Ian Buruma's Version: A Rubbish!
Ian Buruma no doubt is a famous writer. But he is maybe famous just within PKR supporters. He is not Malay and not a Malaysian either. He was born in the The Hague, Netherlands. He is not majoring about Malaysia even South East Asia in his study and suddenly giving his comment about “Malays dilemma”? But he he comes, the beloved writer of Anwar Ibrahim, might be just because he write in favor of PKR and Anwar interest!
I just read a “rubbish” article by Ian Buruma. The title is “The Malays Dilemma”. Maybe he likes to take credit and “cheap publicity” by copying Tun Dr. Mahathir’s book “The Malay Dilemma”. You want to read the content? Just visit http://anwaribrahimblog.com/2009/05/15/the-malay-dilemma. It’s very long article to be write up here. But I did quote some of it to be published.
Ian said:
Anwar — who had rebounded from six years in prison on corruption and sodomy charges to become the best hope for a more democratic, less corrupt Malaysia — speaks softly. He is still under constant surveillance, he said.
I say:
How could Anwar be the “hope” of more democratic, less corrupt Malaysia? He is the ex-prisoner which convicted in corruption cases. Even court had made the decision conviting him legally. He is proven in court as a guilty person. Is Ian trying to insult the courts or legal systems? Even his ex-UMNO buddies talking how corrupt Anwar is. Some of them might call him as “the father of corruption”! Just ask Tan Sri Sanusi Junid how Anwar “bought” votes from Sabah in order to get the late Tun Ghafar Baba leave the Deputy President of UMNO seat. How could be Ian dares to claim Anwar to get “less” corruption? Anwar is not a fighter, he is a loser.
Ian wrote:
This was the same Anwar Ibrahim, one struggled to remember, who was once at the heart of the Malaysian establishment: the Minister of Culture in 1983, the Minister of Education in 1986, the Minister of Finance in 1991 and a Deputy Prime Minister in 1993. He was poised to succeed Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammed. And then he got overconfident. Starting in the summer of 1997, when the Malaysian currency and stock market lost more than half of their value in the Asian financial meltdown, Anwar did something that Dr Mahathir found unforgivable.
I say:
Is Anwar crazy to “sell” Malaysia to IMF? That is one of the reasons that made Tun M angry with him. If Ian wrote about the “unforgivable”, then he should ask the SB’s and Intelligent. They “know” well the “unforgivable” acts by Anwar. Even worlds are giving credits to Mohammad Nor Yaakob and Tun M to practiced capital control. The whole world says that it is a brave and brilliant way to “teach” the “rouge speculator”, but some PKR are “proudly claiming that “it was Anwar’s ideas”! Don’t they know that they are Mohammad Nor Yaakob and Tun M who struggled to safe Malaysia from Soros “The Culprit”, a good friend of Anwar himself. Then Anwar wanted to “mortgage” Malaysia to IMF? Is that the level of IQ that Anwar have to solve Malaysia economic problem? He could not even “reach” Tun’s mind!
Ian said:
Even as the prime minister was imposing capital controls and blaming “rogue speculators,” such as George Soros, for the crisis, Anwar launched an attack on “nepotism” and “cronyism” in his own party, UMNO, which had been in power since independence. The “cronies” included members of Dr Mahathir’s family. While Dr Mahathir tried to bail out banks and corporations run by his allies, Anwar talked about transparency and accepting some of the International Monetary Fund’s recommendations for liberalising the economy.
I say:
The nepotism and cronyism terms was promoted by Anwar to make Tun M looks bad among Malaysian. The question is, why does Anwar did not used the same terms on Pak Lah when he is the Prime Minister? There were KJ, the level 4 boys, Pak Lah cronies within media, Kamaludin and Patrick Badawi. Oh! Pak Lah acted on Anwar’s favor? Pak Lah released him and “satu kampung”? In facts, Tun M forbids his families to join “serious” political involvement. Many times that Tun was suggested by the UMNO’s veterans to make his sons as UMNO leaders, but he refused. No place for Mokhzani, Mirzan and Mukhriz when he is the Prime Minister. Does Ian know how Anwar “spread” the pink form within his cronies to secure his place as Deputy President of UMNO? Ian better as Ezam, he knows. Ian wrote:
Nobody was likely to miss the implication; Dr Mahathir has clearly stated his conviction that “Jews rule this world by proxy.” At the Hilton, Anwar, who started his career as the president of the Malaysian Muslim Students Union, and is a devout Muslim, shrugged. “They say I’m a Jewish agent, because of my friendship with Paul,” he said. “They also accuse me of being a lackey of the Chinese.” His eyebrows twitched in a gesture of disbelief, and he emitted a dry, barking laugh.
I say:
Does this PKR Imam does not recite Al-Quran? "Wa lan tardhau antumul yahudu wa lan nasara hatta tattabi'a millatahum". Which means "the Jews and Christians will not EVER be on your side unless you follow their way”. The PAS spiritual leader also said that “be careful when your enemies agreed with you”. We can see that almost every election or by-election, PKR will “meet” their “master”. The latest was the Bukit Selambau when Saifudin Nasution met “somebody” at Cinta Sayang Club. “They” help PKR a lot. Is there nothing in “return”? Yeah right!
Ian wrote:
To make sense of Anwar’s rise, fall, and rise, it helps to know something about the role of race and religion in Malaysia. The country’s population is more than half Malay, defined by ethnicity and the Muslim faith, but large numbers of Chinese (now about a quarter of the population) and Indians (seven per cent) arrived in the 19th century, when the British imported coolies from China and plantation workers from India. Tensions arising from this mélange — and, in particular, the fear held by Malays that they will always be bested by these minorities — have gripped Malaysian politics since the country achieved independence from the British, in 1957. In recent years, the situation has been further complicated by a surge in Islamic fervour among many Malays.
I say:
Is that how the way Ian Buruma judged the "role of race and religion in Malaysia"? Just the way how Anwar rise, fall and rise again and will be fall again? Why he took Anwar as his “model”? What is so “special” about Anwar? Why Ian did not take Tun M, Nik Aziz, Hadi Awang or Lim Kit Siang as his model? It’s not a fair judgement. He is so “bias” Is that what Ian and Anwar call “justice”?
Ian wrote:
Lim was one of several people I spoke to in Malaysia who used the word “apartheid” in describing his country. “The ethnic situation has become much worse,” he said, especially since Malay nationalism took a strong Islamic turn in the late 1980s, when UMNO was challenged by PAS. The Islamists got a boost from the Iranian Revolution, and actually took power in Kelantan in 1990. To preëmpt the Islamists, UMNO, ostensibly a secular party, wedded its ethnic nationalism (which was decidedly not a feature of PAS) to religion: Muslims were no longer supposed to drink alcohol; women were encouraged to wear head scarves (tudung); easygoing Malay Islam took on the harsher tone of Wahhabi purism.
I say:
Apartheid? The Islamic awareness is no doubt was aroused on late 1980s. It was the time when Tun M begins to be Malaysia’s Prime Minister. It was the era when the army cocktail party will no more serve alcoholic drinks. No PT short among armies and replace a long pants to maintain “aurat”. Wearing “tudung” is a must in Islam as to cover “aurat”. It’s not Wahabi who urges the act. Even Imam Shafie in his “mazhab” asked us to cover the “aurat” by wearing clothes. Why should he bother us to practice our religion by accusing us to be “apartheid”? What a bad call!
Ian wrote:
Meanwhile, in Lim’s view, educated Malays have been too timid to resist, whatever they might do or say in private. “I’ve seen it happening with my progressive university friends,” Lim said. “Wives take to wearing the tudung, the daughters cover up. Their passivity, their silence, is very bad for the community, because it allows the ultras to set the agenda. Islam has become more and more conservative. Muslims can no longer go to non-Malay restaurants or visit the houses of non-Malay friends. Tensions have grown. We’re reverting to the colonial situation, where the different races only meet in the marketplace.”
I say:
Oh God! These statements are insulting Islam and its practices! Passivity and silence becomes a threat to them? How could practicing “tudung” to cover “aurat” become a threat to community? Allows to the ultras to set agenda? What kind of agenda? What a bad call and bad thoughts by them again. We just obey our religion and practice the way it should be! "lakum dinukum wa liya din"! it is not conservative, it is Islamic fundamental! Who says the Malays can not go to non-Malays restaurants? Not all McDonalds are belong to Muslim? And who says Malays can not visit their non-Malays friends? Every Chinese New Year, Deepavali and Christmas, the Malays are actively visiting each others. Who is the one trying to be “apartheid”? It might be them who tried to grow the “apartheid” attitude within Malaysian!
Ian menulis lagi:
Kelantan has hardly any huge buildings. Everything in the state capital, Kota Bharu, near the border with Thailand, is built on a modest scale. I met the PAS vice-president, Husam Musa, at the party headquarters. Husam, an economist by training, is not an imam but one of the new breed of professionals in Islamist politics. He was polite, if a little defensive. On the question of an Islamic state, he said this goal was often misunderstood: “We don’t mean a state ruled by clerics but one guided by the holy books. Without the books, we’d be like UMNO and just grab the money. The difference between us and them is that we believe we will be judged in the afterlife.”
Saya kata:
Husam! You better be careful with your words! What did you meant by these statements? The Husam’s statements show that the UMNOs do not believe in the “judgement day”. It means that Husam tries to portray that we are not Muslim like he is. We believe in Pillar of Iman, including believe in judgement day. We are brothers in Islam, but we are not “Islam PAS” members! This is a statement of PAS Deputy President candidate?
Ian tulis lagi:
He said that Islam was “pro-progress,” and that American democracy was a good model. (“Unfriendly people will accuse me of being pro-American for making this statement.”) He also said that discriminating against ethnic minorities was “un-Islamic,” as was government corruption. “People should be treated the same, and that includes the freedom of religion,” he said.
Saya kata:
This is an example of "endorgan" nominees in PAS? He is might be one of the “fellow father’s assistants” whom Nik Abduh meant in his article. I can see some of them nodded! An American PAS...
This is just some of my answer of some paragraphs of so called “professor” who give his lectures to Oxford, Princeton and Harvard University. There are some paragraphs that I do not need to comment though I think it’s not relevant and out of facts. I had been informed that the article was published in The New Yorker magazine instead of “De Facto’s” blog. It is an article with full of rubbish which is better to be “garbaged”, but still published in it? J
I just read a “rubbish” article by Ian Buruma. The title is “The Malays Dilemma”. Maybe he likes to take credit and “cheap publicity” by copying Tun Dr. Mahathir’s book “The Malay Dilemma”. You want to read the content? Just visit http://anwaribrahimblog.com/2009/05/15/the-malay-dilemma. It’s very long article to be write up here. But I did quote some of it to be published.
Ian said:
Anwar — who had rebounded from six years in prison on corruption and sodomy charges to become the best hope for a more democratic, less corrupt Malaysia — speaks softly. He is still under constant surveillance, he said.
I say:
How could Anwar be the “hope” of more democratic, less corrupt Malaysia? He is the ex-prisoner which convicted in corruption cases. Even court had made the decision conviting him legally. He is proven in court as a guilty person. Is Ian trying to insult the courts or legal systems? Even his ex-UMNO buddies talking how corrupt Anwar is. Some of them might call him as “the father of corruption”! Just ask Tan Sri Sanusi Junid how Anwar “bought” votes from Sabah in order to get the late Tun Ghafar Baba leave the Deputy President of UMNO seat. How could be Ian dares to claim Anwar to get “less” corruption? Anwar is not a fighter, he is a loser.
Ian wrote:
This was the same Anwar Ibrahim, one struggled to remember, who was once at the heart of the Malaysian establishment: the Minister of Culture in 1983, the Minister of Education in 1986, the Minister of Finance in 1991 and a Deputy Prime Minister in 1993. He was poised to succeed Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammed. And then he got overconfident. Starting in the summer of 1997, when the Malaysian currency and stock market lost more than half of their value in the Asian financial meltdown, Anwar did something that Dr Mahathir found unforgivable.
I say:
Is Anwar crazy to “sell” Malaysia to IMF? That is one of the reasons that made Tun M angry with him. If Ian wrote about the “unforgivable”, then he should ask the SB’s and Intelligent. They “know” well the “unforgivable” acts by Anwar. Even worlds are giving credits to Mohammad Nor Yaakob and Tun M to practiced capital control. The whole world says that it is a brave and brilliant way to “teach” the “rouge speculator”, but some PKR are “proudly claiming that “it was Anwar’s ideas”! Don’t they know that they are Mohammad Nor Yaakob and Tun M who struggled to safe Malaysia from Soros “The Culprit”, a good friend of Anwar himself. Then Anwar wanted to “mortgage” Malaysia to IMF? Is that the level of IQ that Anwar have to solve Malaysia economic problem? He could not even “reach” Tun’s mind!
Ian said:
Even as the prime minister was imposing capital controls and blaming “rogue speculators,” such as George Soros, for the crisis, Anwar launched an attack on “nepotism” and “cronyism” in his own party, UMNO, which had been in power since independence. The “cronies” included members of Dr Mahathir’s family. While Dr Mahathir tried to bail out banks and corporations run by his allies, Anwar talked about transparency and accepting some of the International Monetary Fund’s recommendations for liberalising the economy.
I say:
The nepotism and cronyism terms was promoted by Anwar to make Tun M looks bad among Malaysian. The question is, why does Anwar did not used the same terms on Pak Lah when he is the Prime Minister? There were KJ, the level 4 boys, Pak Lah cronies within media, Kamaludin and Patrick Badawi. Oh! Pak Lah acted on Anwar’s favor? Pak Lah released him and “satu kampung”? In facts, Tun M forbids his families to join “serious” political involvement. Many times that Tun was suggested by the UMNO’s veterans to make his sons as UMNO leaders, but he refused. No place for Mokhzani, Mirzan and Mukhriz when he is the Prime Minister. Does Ian know how Anwar “spread” the pink form within his cronies to secure his place as Deputy President of UMNO? Ian better as Ezam, he knows. Ian wrote:
Nobody was likely to miss the implication; Dr Mahathir has clearly stated his conviction that “Jews rule this world by proxy.” At the Hilton, Anwar, who started his career as the president of the Malaysian Muslim Students Union, and is a devout Muslim, shrugged. “They say I’m a Jewish agent, because of my friendship with Paul,” he said. “They also accuse me of being a lackey of the Chinese.” His eyebrows twitched in a gesture of disbelief, and he emitted a dry, barking laugh.
I say:
Does this PKR Imam does not recite Al-Quran? "Wa lan tardhau antumul yahudu wa lan nasara hatta tattabi'a millatahum". Which means "the Jews and Christians will not EVER be on your side unless you follow their way”. The PAS spiritual leader also said that “be careful when your enemies agreed with you”. We can see that almost every election or by-election, PKR will “meet” their “master”. The latest was the Bukit Selambau when Saifudin Nasution met “somebody” at Cinta Sayang Club. “They” help PKR a lot. Is there nothing in “return”? Yeah right!
Ian wrote:
To make sense of Anwar’s rise, fall, and rise, it helps to know something about the role of race and religion in Malaysia. The country’s population is more than half Malay, defined by ethnicity and the Muslim faith, but large numbers of Chinese (now about a quarter of the population) and Indians (seven per cent) arrived in the 19th century, when the British imported coolies from China and plantation workers from India. Tensions arising from this mélange — and, in particular, the fear held by Malays that they will always be bested by these minorities — have gripped Malaysian politics since the country achieved independence from the British, in 1957. In recent years, the situation has been further complicated by a surge in Islamic fervour among many Malays.
I say:
Is that how the way Ian Buruma judged the "role of race and religion in Malaysia"? Just the way how Anwar rise, fall and rise again and will be fall again? Why he took Anwar as his “model”? What is so “special” about Anwar? Why Ian did not take Tun M, Nik Aziz, Hadi Awang or Lim Kit Siang as his model? It’s not a fair judgement. He is so “bias” Is that what Ian and Anwar call “justice”?
Ian wrote:
Lim was one of several people I spoke to in Malaysia who used the word “apartheid” in describing his country. “The ethnic situation has become much worse,” he said, especially since Malay nationalism took a strong Islamic turn in the late 1980s, when UMNO was challenged by PAS. The Islamists got a boost from the Iranian Revolution, and actually took power in Kelantan in 1990. To preëmpt the Islamists, UMNO, ostensibly a secular party, wedded its ethnic nationalism (which was decidedly not a feature of PAS) to religion: Muslims were no longer supposed to drink alcohol; women were encouraged to wear head scarves (tudung); easygoing Malay Islam took on the harsher tone of Wahhabi purism.
I say:
Apartheid? The Islamic awareness is no doubt was aroused on late 1980s. It was the time when Tun M begins to be Malaysia’s Prime Minister. It was the era when the army cocktail party will no more serve alcoholic drinks. No PT short among armies and replace a long pants to maintain “aurat”. Wearing “tudung” is a must in Islam as to cover “aurat”. It’s not Wahabi who urges the act. Even Imam Shafie in his “mazhab” asked us to cover the “aurat” by wearing clothes. Why should he bother us to practice our religion by accusing us to be “apartheid”? What a bad call!
Ian wrote:
Meanwhile, in Lim’s view, educated Malays have been too timid to resist, whatever they might do or say in private. “I’ve seen it happening with my progressive university friends,” Lim said. “Wives take to wearing the tudung, the daughters cover up. Their passivity, their silence, is very bad for the community, because it allows the ultras to set the agenda. Islam has become more and more conservative. Muslims can no longer go to non-Malay restaurants or visit the houses of non-Malay friends. Tensions have grown. We’re reverting to the colonial situation, where the different races only meet in the marketplace.”
I say:
Oh God! These statements are insulting Islam and its practices! Passivity and silence becomes a threat to them? How could practicing “tudung” to cover “aurat” become a threat to community? Allows to the ultras to set agenda? What kind of agenda? What a bad call and bad thoughts by them again. We just obey our religion and practice the way it should be! "lakum dinukum wa liya din"! it is not conservative, it is Islamic fundamental! Who says the Malays can not go to non-Malays restaurants? Not all McDonalds are belong to Muslim? And who says Malays can not visit their non-Malays friends? Every Chinese New Year, Deepavali and Christmas, the Malays are actively visiting each others. Who is the one trying to be “apartheid”? It might be them who tried to grow the “apartheid” attitude within Malaysian!
Ian menulis lagi:
Kelantan has hardly any huge buildings. Everything in the state capital, Kota Bharu, near the border with Thailand, is built on a modest scale. I met the PAS vice-president, Husam Musa, at the party headquarters. Husam, an economist by training, is not an imam but one of the new breed of professionals in Islamist politics. He was polite, if a little defensive. On the question of an Islamic state, he said this goal was often misunderstood: “We don’t mean a state ruled by clerics but one guided by the holy books. Without the books, we’d be like UMNO and just grab the money. The difference between us and them is that we believe we will be judged in the afterlife.”
Saya kata:
Husam! You better be careful with your words! What did you meant by these statements? The Husam’s statements show that the UMNOs do not believe in the “judgement day”. It means that Husam tries to portray that we are not Muslim like he is. We believe in Pillar of Iman, including believe in judgement day. We are brothers in Islam, but we are not “Islam PAS” members! This is a statement of PAS Deputy President candidate?
Ian tulis lagi:
He said that Islam was “pro-progress,” and that American democracy was a good model. (“Unfriendly people will accuse me of being pro-American for making this statement.”) He also said that discriminating against ethnic minorities was “un-Islamic,” as was government corruption. “People should be treated the same, and that includes the freedom of religion,” he said.
Saya kata:
This is an example of "endorgan" nominees in PAS? He is might be one of the “fellow father’s assistants” whom Nik Abduh meant in his article. I can see some of them nodded! An American PAS...
This is just some of my answer of some paragraphs of so called “professor” who give his lectures to Oxford, Princeton and Harvard University. There are some paragraphs that I do not need to comment though I think it’s not relevant and out of facts. I had been informed that the article was published in The New Yorker magazine instead of “De Facto’s” blog. It is an article with full of rubbish which is better to be “garbaged”, but still published in it? J
Beware My Beloved Muslim Brother Of Pas
Hadi is the man. Hadi is the president. Hadi was reported today to maintain as the President of PAS. He won the title. He is the “captain” again. He won 136 vote against 1 vote for Nik Aziz by the Bukit Bintang PAS division. And Nik Aziz can not claim himself as the “captain” anymore! It can’t be two “captain” for a ship and the “captain” is not Nik Aziz. He can forget his “dream” becoming the “captain” as he used to “hint” before.
There are 5 contestants for Deputy President of PAS. Nasharuddin as the current Deputy President of PAS is going to hold the post against 4 other candidates. They are Husam the “endorgan”, Mat Sabu the “inventor of Al-Juburi term”, Azizan Razak the “MB of Kedah” and Ust. Harun Din the “businessman who own Darul Shifa”. There they go for the seat in the same method of UMNO election last Mac. The lust for the Deputy President seat is so high! It was predicted to be a very hard core fight. It was predicted to be a “cold war” in this “lustful” seat competition among the “lebais”!
Nasharuddin was the favorite? He is believed to get 60% vote to contest the “hot” seat. The rumors said that he is in the “ulama” coalition. But could he succeed defending his “power”? They say that he is “weak”, some of them claimed that he is not doing his work. Some of them said that he is “lembik” defending PAS interest in Pakatan Rakyat coalition. He is so “quite” and not the true fighter of PAS. Is that true? I heard the rumors from the northern PAS members. But of course they don’t want me to disclose their identity.
Will Husam succeed in his attempt? I think he will have a good support from the “wind of endorgan” in PAS. The endorgan who tries so hard to give PKR virus injection since years. Since the Kamaruddin Jaafar, buddy of Anwar enter the “gate” of PAS “markaz”. Then the idealism of “endorgan” pours within PAS “wind of change”. There is no more Islamic state. There is no more “hudud”. There are major revolutions in determining the PAS manifesto. The manifesto changed year by year. And the mastermind is so called the “magical black magic hand” of Anwar Ibrahim.
There comes Mat Sabu. The term of “Al-Juburi” is believed was “invented” by him. He knows Anwar since they studied. He used to see Tun Dr. Mahathir, and Tun asked him whether he is the one who responsible by him. He just nodded to confirm and the story was told by one of “Tun’s today most popular son”. By record, I would like to remind you that Mat Sabu is the person who was caught “khalwat” with one of his “friend’s wife” and found “not guilty” by the court. But the rumors said that he married the woman after that incident! What a co-incident marriage if so!
Azizan Razak is the new MB for Kedah State. He is believe to be one of the PAS veteran who still alive to carry out the main hard core PAS nowadays. But he did no new thing in Kedah. He just carries to do what the last Kedah BN’s state government used to do. He does just the same job without any new “wow” factor project. It was only once, when he confirmed to run a mega hi-tech pig sanctuary at Bukit Selambau. But the project was cancelled due to get so much pressure especially from UMNO! Phew! What an almost a disaster for Bukit Selambau residents!
And the last candidate for Deputy President of PAS is Dato’ Dr. Harun Din. He is the businessman, who runs Darul Shifa, an alternative medication method in Islam. Just like a medical specialist centre to cure people for “jinn”, “satans”, “ghost” and unsolved deceases.
The “Darul Shifa” is believed as one of the place to solve the unidentified medical cases. They do it in the Islamic way accordingly. They make good money, good profit and no doubt about it. He is the currently the Deputy “Mursyidul Am” PAS, the deputy of Nik Aziz. He was chosen as one of the favorite candidate last PAS election, but he refused to contest. He refused to contest if there is other competitor in the quest of the post. He wanted to be the one and only candidate. He insisted to be the only chosen one by the member of party. “Muttafaqun ‘alaihi”. This arab’s term seems fit him. Will this man get the seat without any candidate to compete him this time? Are the others are willing to back of? Will they? Or Harun Din will be another “flip flop” celebrities?
The Vice President of PAS will be contested by 16 persons. What a large number! The number is larger then UMNO candidates for UMNO Vice President on last Mac. They are Salahuddin Ayob, Tuan Ibrahim, Dr. Hassan Ali, Mahfuz, Nizar the “puppet”, Taib Azamuddin, Mohd. Amar, Mujahid the son of Yusuf Rawa, Kamaruddin Jaafar the “hands of Anwar”, Harun Taib, Ahmad Awang and Idris Ahmad. Some of them are veterans. Some of them are “endorgan”. Some of them are “opportunist”. Only a few of them are coming from so called “ulama” PAS. And the other 4 candidates consisting the candidate of Deputy President of PAS. What a lust of power! The Malays call it “gila kuasa”!
Let them go through their party election in “democratic” way. It’s their right. This article is just to remind them that the “virus” that Anwar Ibrahim used to “planted” in UMNO is now being “implemented to their party. The “virus” of political corruption is now being introduced by De Facto of PKR just like he bought the vote for his power in UMNO last decade. Just the way he “kicked out” our beloved late nationalist Tun Ghafar Baba. Just like the way he spread out the “pink form” among UMNO members. Just like the “Iblis” asked Adam A.S and Hawa to eat “khuldi” fruits from heaven!
So beware of that. It is not me who say that. You can see it by yourself. You can hear the call of Muhammad Daud Al-Iraqi, the head of PAS ulama’ hall a few days ago. You can hear what did Nik Aziz said that “you are now are being friend with satan”, instead to destroy your Muslim brothers! Beware of him. The “black heart” is trying to torn PAS apart. Even Nik Abduh had seen that and he did remind you earlier. Beware my beloved Muslim brother of PAS. “The devil” is trying to destroy you!
There are 5 contestants for Deputy President of PAS. Nasharuddin as the current Deputy President of PAS is going to hold the post against 4 other candidates. They are Husam the “endorgan”, Mat Sabu the “inventor of Al-Juburi term”, Azizan Razak the “MB of Kedah” and Ust. Harun Din the “businessman who own Darul Shifa”. There they go for the seat in the same method of UMNO election last Mac. The lust for the Deputy President seat is so high! It was predicted to be a very hard core fight. It was predicted to be a “cold war” in this “lustful” seat competition among the “lebais”!
Nasharuddin was the favorite? He is believed to get 60% vote to contest the “hot” seat. The rumors said that he is in the “ulama” coalition. But could he succeed defending his “power”? They say that he is “weak”, some of them claimed that he is not doing his work. Some of them said that he is “lembik” defending PAS interest in Pakatan Rakyat coalition. He is so “quite” and not the true fighter of PAS. Is that true? I heard the rumors from the northern PAS members. But of course they don’t want me to disclose their identity.
Will Husam succeed in his attempt? I think he will have a good support from the “wind of endorgan” in PAS. The endorgan who tries so hard to give PKR virus injection since years. Since the Kamaruddin Jaafar, buddy of Anwar enter the “gate” of PAS “markaz”. Then the idealism of “endorgan” pours within PAS “wind of change”. There is no more Islamic state. There is no more “hudud”. There are major revolutions in determining the PAS manifesto. The manifesto changed year by year. And the mastermind is so called the “magical black magic hand” of Anwar Ibrahim.
There comes Mat Sabu. The term of “Al-Juburi” is believed was “invented” by him. He knows Anwar since they studied. He used to see Tun Dr. Mahathir, and Tun asked him whether he is the one who responsible by him. He just nodded to confirm and the story was told by one of “Tun’s today most popular son”. By record, I would like to remind you that Mat Sabu is the person who was caught “khalwat” with one of his “friend’s wife” and found “not guilty” by the court. But the rumors said that he married the woman after that incident! What a co-incident marriage if so!
Azizan Razak is the new MB for Kedah State. He is believe to be one of the PAS veteran who still alive to carry out the main hard core PAS nowadays. But he did no new thing in Kedah. He just carries to do what the last Kedah BN’s state government used to do. He does just the same job without any new “wow” factor project. It was only once, when he confirmed to run a mega hi-tech pig sanctuary at Bukit Selambau. But the project was cancelled due to get so much pressure especially from UMNO! Phew! What an almost a disaster for Bukit Selambau residents!
And the last candidate for Deputy President of PAS is Dato’ Dr. Harun Din. He is the businessman, who runs Darul Shifa, an alternative medication method in Islam. Just like a medical specialist centre to cure people for “jinn”, “satans”, “ghost” and unsolved deceases.
The “Darul Shifa” is believed as one of the place to solve the unidentified medical cases. They do it in the Islamic way accordingly. They make good money, good profit and no doubt about it. He is the currently the Deputy “Mursyidul Am” PAS, the deputy of Nik Aziz. He was chosen as one of the favorite candidate last PAS election, but he refused to contest. He refused to contest if there is other competitor in the quest of the post. He wanted to be the one and only candidate. He insisted to be the only chosen one by the member of party. “Muttafaqun ‘alaihi”. This arab’s term seems fit him. Will this man get the seat without any candidate to compete him this time? Are the others are willing to back of? Will they? Or Harun Din will be another “flip flop” celebrities?
The Vice President of PAS will be contested by 16 persons. What a large number! The number is larger then UMNO candidates for UMNO Vice President on last Mac. They are Salahuddin Ayob, Tuan Ibrahim, Dr. Hassan Ali, Mahfuz, Nizar the “puppet”, Taib Azamuddin, Mohd. Amar, Mujahid the son of Yusuf Rawa, Kamaruddin Jaafar the “hands of Anwar”, Harun Taib, Ahmad Awang and Idris Ahmad. Some of them are veterans. Some of them are “endorgan”. Some of them are “opportunist”. Only a few of them are coming from so called “ulama” PAS. And the other 4 candidates consisting the candidate of Deputy President of PAS. What a lust of power! The Malays call it “gila kuasa”!
Let them go through their party election in “democratic” way. It’s their right. This article is just to remind them that the “virus” that Anwar Ibrahim used to “planted” in UMNO is now being “implemented to their party. The “virus” of political corruption is now being introduced by De Facto of PKR just like he bought the vote for his power in UMNO last decade. Just the way he “kicked out” our beloved late nationalist Tun Ghafar Baba. Just like the way he spread out the “pink form” among UMNO members. Just like the “Iblis” asked Adam A.S and Hawa to eat “khuldi” fruits from heaven!
So beware of that. It is not me who say that. You can see it by yourself. You can hear the call of Muhammad Daud Al-Iraqi, the head of PAS ulama’ hall a few days ago. You can hear what did Nik Aziz said that “you are now are being friend with satan”, instead to destroy your Muslim brothers! Beware of him. The “black heart” is trying to torn PAS apart. Even Nik Abduh had seen that and he did remind you earlier. Beware my beloved Muslim brother of PAS. “The devil” is trying to destroy you!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Abolish ISA and Allow Mas Selamat To Walk Freely In Our Neighborhood
Last week the Police and Minister of Home Affairs announced the capture of Singapore’s most wanted fugitive, Mas Selamat Kastari.
On 27th February 2008 he escaped from Singapore’s detention center and the escape triggered massive movement of security personnel to apprehend him.
On 1st of April 2009, Mas Selamat was caught at a kampong in, Johor and last week, about a month later the police made official statement regarding Mas Selamat detention.
Due to ongoing investigation, it the police waited for almost 1 month to make official announcement. He is currently detained under ISA in Malaysia to assist in investigation.
The question now, why there wasn’t anyone making ‘noise’ regarding Mas Selamat detention under ISA?
Those within Pakatan Rakyat who are making much effort to abolish ISA have not come forward to fight against Mas Selamat ‘illegal’ detention.
I remember not too long ago, they will take to the street the moment anyone from Pakatan Rakyat or someone with political interest was detained under ISA.
But today no one take to the street when it is known that Mas Selamat is currently detained under ISA? Is Mas Selamat least human? Or is it because Mas Selamat has no political value for him to be defended?
Where is Pakatan Rakyat? Where is the compassion in Pakatan Rakyat that was shown on numerous occasions before? Where are the NGO’s fighting for those under detention? Where is Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA?
Why is the double standard? Why hiding behind “abolishment of ISA” when in the first place they want their political allies to be freed.
The struggle to abolish ISA is a political ploy. They don’t care much about others who are under detention except for political prisoners.
So tell me something. Do you think Mas Selamat should be freed? Should we let him loose and roam free to create fear in us? Should we let him walk freely together with us to KLCC fully knowing what he’s capable of doing?
Fortunately the answers to these questions are not in your hand.
On 27th February 2008 he escaped from Singapore’s detention center and the escape triggered massive movement of security personnel to apprehend him.
On 1st of April 2009, Mas Selamat was caught at a kampong in, Johor and last week, about a month later the police made official statement regarding Mas Selamat detention.
Due to ongoing investigation, it the police waited for almost 1 month to make official announcement. He is currently detained under ISA in Malaysia to assist in investigation.
The question now, why there wasn’t anyone making ‘noise’ regarding Mas Selamat detention under ISA?
Those within Pakatan Rakyat who are making much effort to abolish ISA have not come forward to fight against Mas Selamat ‘illegal’ detention.
I remember not too long ago, they will take to the street the moment anyone from Pakatan Rakyat or someone with political interest was detained under ISA.
But today no one take to the street when it is known that Mas Selamat is currently detained under ISA? Is Mas Selamat least human? Or is it because Mas Selamat has no political value for him to be defended?
Where is Pakatan Rakyat? Where is the compassion in Pakatan Rakyat that was shown on numerous occasions before? Where are the NGO’s fighting for those under detention? Where is Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA?
Why is the double standard? Why hiding behind “abolishment of ISA” when in the first place they want their political allies to be freed.
The struggle to abolish ISA is a political ploy. They don’t care much about others who are under detention except for political prisoners.
So tell me something. Do you think Mas Selamat should be freed? Should we let him loose and roam free to create fear in us? Should we let him walk freely together with us to KLCC fully knowing what he’s capable of doing?
Fortunately the answers to these questions are not in your hand.
Friday, May 8, 2009
E-Book: Key To Better Education?
Terengganu government decided to distribute 23,000 e-book to year five students in the state. The distribution will start end of this month.
According to the spokesperson, the e-book project was part of the state government’s aim at providing quality education and to reduce the burden of heavy school bag.
What I’m wondering is that whether this will actually work and achieve its noble target.
Contribution from oil and gas made this state one of the richest in Malaysia and due to this, it can afford to supply primary school children with e-book.
I don’t think it’s fair when it comes to this. The government aim to provide equal and the best education possible to all Malaysian. It started from primary and later progressed to university.
The question is why students from Terengganu have the privilege to basically get an e-book each? What about other primary school children outside Terengganu?
Does the education minister feel that this is a fair advantage to school children from Terengganu?
I personally don’t think handing out e-book is the best or better effort from the state government to provide better education. I think someone is making a lot of money out of this.
If the state government wanted to improve the state of education in Terengganu, they should consider equipping better and more computers to the school.
The e-book has limited capability. Though its internet enabled, how many students have internet connectivity at home?
What about maintenance? Who will maintain them? Can the parents afford to maintain and repair faulty e-book?
The state government should consider upgrading facilities in school. This will somehow encourage the students to spend more time in school. By spending more time in school, they can get involved in sports, information technology etc. And the teachers can better supervise their students.
At home we don’t know how long the students spend time with their e-book. We want the e-book to be fully utilized.
Terengganu is where majority of the students are kampong boy. They are the active type where they spend more time outdoor. The idea of making them spend more time in front of the e-book seems to be a farfetched idea.
It’s best to use the money to make the students spend more time in school rather than letting them spend more time outdoor doing nothing or getting involved with negative activities.
According to the spokesperson, the e-book project was part of the state government’s aim at providing quality education and to reduce the burden of heavy school bag.
What I’m wondering is that whether this will actually work and achieve its noble target.
Contribution from oil and gas made this state one of the richest in Malaysia and due to this, it can afford to supply primary school children with e-book.
I don’t think it’s fair when it comes to this. The government aim to provide equal and the best education possible to all Malaysian. It started from primary and later progressed to university.
The question is why students from Terengganu have the privilege to basically get an e-book each? What about other primary school children outside Terengganu?
Does the education minister feel that this is a fair advantage to school children from Terengganu?
I personally don’t think handing out e-book is the best or better effort from the state government to provide better education. I think someone is making a lot of money out of this.
If the state government wanted to improve the state of education in Terengganu, they should consider equipping better and more computers to the school.
The e-book has limited capability. Though its internet enabled, how many students have internet connectivity at home?
What about maintenance? Who will maintain them? Can the parents afford to maintain and repair faulty e-book?
The state government should consider upgrading facilities in school. This will somehow encourage the students to spend more time in school. By spending more time in school, they can get involved in sports, information technology etc. And the teachers can better supervise their students.
At home we don’t know how long the students spend time with their e-book. We want the e-book to be fully utilized.
Terengganu is where majority of the students are kampong boy. They are the active type where they spend more time outdoor. The idea of making them spend more time in front of the e-book seems to be a farfetched idea.
It’s best to use the money to make the students spend more time in school rather than letting them spend more time outdoor doing nothing or getting involved with negative activities.
Community Service And Henry Gurney For Mat Rempit
Yesterday the Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye from Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation suggested a few measures to curb the notorious Mat Rempit.
He suggested that Mat Rempits should be asked to do community service. Instead of giving them fines, the government should consider educating and in a way ‘embarrassing’ them through community service.
These suggestions I think are much more ‘workable’, viable and make more sense than sending them to jail.
Putting them behind bars will in a way enable them to hide their identity. We need to put faces to these names. The key word is ‘embarrass’ them in public.
Indirectly it will also help to reduce congestion in prison. I don’t think putting them in jail for a short while would have any impact. In fact it might boost their ego, “Been there. Done that.”
Ego made them turn into Mat Rempit. And we should use their ‘Ego’ against them.
Make them sweep the road, collect garbage and cleaning the public toilet should be considered. Make sure their identities are easily identified by the general public. Give them bright uniforms and apparels written “I’m Mat Rempit”.
Making them do all these laborious job might help the local authorities to save some cost.
Another suggestion mooted was to send the underage Mat Rempit to Henry Gurney School.
There’s no harm trying this. Some of these Mat Rempits are not hard core criminals. They’re just some youth who wanna release steam. The threat of sending them to Henry Gurney to be with other juvenile criminals can be a deterrent factor.
This will also indirectly make the parents to take more pro-active role. Like it or not, the parents have to control their children unless they want their children to end up in Henry Gurney School.
Whatever action taken, the authority need to give it more prominence in the media. The public and Mat Rempit need to know that action are being taken. And they need to take this matter seriously.
They take law lightly realizing that the judge can only impose light sentence and it won’t hurt their ego. Before this they hide behind the helmet. Now is the time for the media to put their face in the news more prominently and make sure the public knows who these nuisances in the community are.
This suggestion is not to glamourise the Mat Rempit but to put face on this anonymous public enemy. For as long as they remain anonymous, they will forever terrorise the general public.
He suggested that Mat Rempits should be asked to do community service. Instead of giving them fines, the government should consider educating and in a way ‘embarrassing’ them through community service.
These suggestions I think are much more ‘workable’, viable and make more sense than sending them to jail.
Putting them behind bars will in a way enable them to hide their identity. We need to put faces to these names. The key word is ‘embarrass’ them in public.
Indirectly it will also help to reduce congestion in prison. I don’t think putting them in jail for a short while would have any impact. In fact it might boost their ego, “Been there. Done that.”
Ego made them turn into Mat Rempit. And we should use their ‘Ego’ against them.
Make them sweep the road, collect garbage and cleaning the public toilet should be considered. Make sure their identities are easily identified by the general public. Give them bright uniforms and apparels written “I’m Mat Rempit”.
Making them do all these laborious job might help the local authorities to save some cost.
Another suggestion mooted was to send the underage Mat Rempit to Henry Gurney School.
There’s no harm trying this. Some of these Mat Rempits are not hard core criminals. They’re just some youth who wanna release steam. The threat of sending them to Henry Gurney to be with other juvenile criminals can be a deterrent factor.
This will also indirectly make the parents to take more pro-active role. Like it or not, the parents have to control their children unless they want their children to end up in Henry Gurney School.
Whatever action taken, the authority need to give it more prominence in the media. The public and Mat Rempit need to know that action are being taken. And they need to take this matter seriously.
They take law lightly realizing that the judge can only impose light sentence and it won’t hurt their ego. Before this they hide behind the helmet. Now is the time for the media to put their face in the news more prominently and make sure the public knows who these nuisances in the community are.
This suggestion is not to glamourise the Mat Rempit but to put face on this anonymous public enemy. For as long as they remain anonymous, they will forever terrorise the general public.
Between Che Mat, Che Puan And Che Guevera
Ask any young Malaysian whether they know anyone mentioned above. The answer would definitely be Che Guevara.
Ask the same group of young Malaysian about Sambathan, Cheng Lok, Boestamam and Che Guevara. I guarantee they’d be able to give Che’s home address but they don’t know where Sambathan, Cheng Lok and Boestamam were buried.
So what’s wrong with this scenario? Is this something that we should worry? Do you blame these young Malaysians, teachers or parents?
Did the family institution or education system fail us? Did the parents or teachers failed to instill patriotism sentiment into young Malaysians? If not parents and teachers, so who’s responsible to do this?
I remember Cool Hand Luke’s “What we got here is failure to communicate…” very clearly. In this case, “…failure to communicate…” is akin to failure to communicate with young Malaysians.
We failed to share with them about our forefathers. Hence we can’t blame them if they knew more about Che Guevara than our own freedom fighters.
What should we do to correct this? Should we go back to basics? Or leave as it is? Can you imagine Che Guevara getting famous and worshipped by children who’ve never heard the word ‘revolution’ or experience anything like it?
I’m not surprised in 100 years time; Che Guevara is bigger than Tun Dr.Mahathir. How often do you see someone wearing t-shirts with Mahathir’s face on it? And compare this scenario with thousands of Che Guevara’s ‘merchandise’ available locally. So, who is more iconic among young Malaysians?
Are we likely to see our future youth turning into ignorant Malaysians? A strong nation is a nation which is deeply rooted to the ground. A well grounded Malaysians will always remember its forefathers and will always remember their sacrifices.
The education system needs to be amended. Today we need to move away from exam oriented education system. What we see today are students who absorb what they’re learned like sponge and later squeeze it out during examination. In the end what’s left is just feather weight sponge with nothing inside.
The children and students alike need to participate in education. They should be taught to use all their senses while in learning environment. Hands, feet, mouth, ears, nose and eyes need to work together with the brain. They shouldn’t be mere listeners and jot down what the teacher have said.
Same goes with our forefathers. Let young Malaysians go out and find about these forefathers. And later let them explain their findings. The times where teachers giving out facts are over.
So in a nutshell, our outlook on education needs a makeover. We need to get the parents to participate too, not leave it to the teachers. Hopefully with these small changes, might be able to make young Malaysians remember more of Che Mat and Che Puan than Che Guevara.
Ask the same group of young Malaysian about Sambathan, Cheng Lok, Boestamam and Che Guevara. I guarantee they’d be able to give Che’s home address but they don’t know where Sambathan, Cheng Lok and Boestamam were buried.
So what’s wrong with this scenario? Is this something that we should worry? Do you blame these young Malaysians, teachers or parents?
Did the family institution or education system fail us? Did the parents or teachers failed to instill patriotism sentiment into young Malaysians? If not parents and teachers, so who’s responsible to do this?
I remember Cool Hand Luke’s “What we got here is failure to communicate…” very clearly. In this case, “…failure to communicate…” is akin to failure to communicate with young Malaysians.
We failed to share with them about our forefathers. Hence we can’t blame them if they knew more about Che Guevara than our own freedom fighters.
What should we do to correct this? Should we go back to basics? Or leave as it is? Can you imagine Che Guevara getting famous and worshipped by children who’ve never heard the word ‘revolution’ or experience anything like it?
I’m not surprised in 100 years time; Che Guevara is bigger than Tun Dr.Mahathir. How often do you see someone wearing t-shirts with Mahathir’s face on it? And compare this scenario with thousands of Che Guevara’s ‘merchandise’ available locally. So, who is more iconic among young Malaysians?
Are we likely to see our future youth turning into ignorant Malaysians? A strong nation is a nation which is deeply rooted to the ground. A well grounded Malaysians will always remember its forefathers and will always remember their sacrifices.
The education system needs to be amended. Today we need to move away from exam oriented education system. What we see today are students who absorb what they’re learned like sponge and later squeeze it out during examination. In the end what’s left is just feather weight sponge with nothing inside.
The children and students alike need to participate in education. They should be taught to use all their senses while in learning environment. Hands, feet, mouth, ears, nose and eyes need to work together with the brain. They shouldn’t be mere listeners and jot down what the teacher have said.
Same goes with our forefathers. Let young Malaysians go out and find about these forefathers. And later let them explain their findings. The times where teachers giving out facts are over.
So in a nutshell, our outlook on education needs a makeover. We need to get the parents to participate too, not leave it to the teachers. Hopefully with these small changes, might be able to make young Malaysians remember more of Che Mat and Che Puan than Che Guevara.
What A Pity Of Bukit Lanjan Residents
After coming back from her two month “peace of mind” vacation, she announced that she is also kind of “flip-flop” assemblyman and political leader. She put a side of her embarrassing “half naked” controversial pictures. She leads the Bukit Lanjan again as Bukit Lanjan assemblyman and Selangor State Exco. That’s for sure.
The controversial picture has now coming back to her life. Worse come to worse, what a pity of her. She can run, but she can not hide! The fact is, the photos are coming back on the website. A website called “gutteruncensored” is now dares to publish the dirty pictures of Eli Wong! Oh! What a pity of her again!
The question is, does the website is trying to urge Eli Wong to declare the resignation from her post again? And of course, the Menteri Besar Selangor, Khalid Ibrahim has to back her up again? Oh God, what is the website trying to push now? Does the website notice that the photos are should not be publish to public? It’s a private collection now.
It was still shocking us that this issue is still on the run. Still keep in track. The website is still tracking down the pity Eli Wong to his seclusion area. Will Eli Wong take a legal action on the website? Will Eli Wong take another “peace of mind” trip again until the “disturbance” photos are taken out ever from the website? Will it ends the action against her private life?
The fact is, the issue is still on the “game”. It is not a game over yet. Most politicians, even from Barisan Nasional have their sympathy on her “incident”. Who is to blame? We cannot blame the ruling government about this shameful manner. How about her so called “ex-boyfriend”? Any news from that guy yet? The rumors spread so high that he is the one who is responsible for this “unmannerly” manners. Had he been caught yet? Is there any further investigations had been planned?
The character assassination through the “unmannerly” manners is can not be accepted. Most people have their sympathy of her. The Bukit Lanjan residents brought up posters “begging” for Eli Wong not to resign. They love her. They totally “forgive” her for the sleeping unconsciously half naked. They forgive her for allowing her “Malay” ex-boyfriend to sneaking in her house, taking her “forgiven” sleeping manners!
What about the PR politician leaders? Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim will for sure forgiving her on the “incident”. How about the “so called” PAS spiritual leader Dato’ Nik Aziz Nik Mat? He seems “liberal” and “forgive and forget” about this matter. He said that “the incident” should not been happened”. I can hardly heard anything coming from Karpal Singh accept of his “famous quote” of “Anwar Ibrahim harus bertaubat!”.
I wonder if something like this incident is happening to one of the Barisan Nasional female politician leader. How if this kind of incident involving Dato’ Seri Azalina or Rosnah Shirlin? Will they been forgiven? How if something of this happen to Ng Yen Yen? Will they been forgiven just the way of Eli Wong being forgiven right now? Or there will be just another political statement by the opposition leaders of Pakatan Rakyat against the them? Who knows? Politics is always unpredictable!
What should we do now? I do not have any access to shut down the “unconscious half naked” pictures of Eli Wong from the “website”. I still have a pity of her as a human being. She is the victim of some bloody character assassin out there. I think “somebody” have to do something to end this. That somebody is has to be either “the character assassin” or Eli Wong herself! The character assassin is hard to trace and there will be thousands of copies been spread out through the world!
Well, it seems to be Eli Wong herself to end this up? Will she again face the humiliation she is not meant to be? Should she resign to end up all this matter? Should the Bukit Lanjan assemblyman takes another “two month with paid” vacation? Or she will just repeat her statement “I will resign!”? Will she firm with the statement or she just make another “flip-flop” self interest political movement. Yet, is there another by-election await us at Bukit Lanjan of Selangor?
What a hell of disaster created by another Pakatan Rakyat leaders! After the resignation of Fairus of Penang with his “so called” arranged set up conspiration against him, yet comes the shadow of new by-election in Selangor. The by-election of course will cause Malaysia government millions of Ringgit. What a waste! Who made the Ringgit Malaysia wasted so easy? Looks like Pakatan Rakyat leaders. Is there any of Pakatan Rakyat” die hard fan realized about this fact? What a bitter to take!
Yet, the pictures issue had to be covered up first. Eli Wong will be demanded to answer the call. We just wait for her answer. Hope she will end this all last and forever. Please YB, you have to end this up. We have the pity of you, but…what a shame!
The controversial picture has now coming back to her life. Worse come to worse, what a pity of her. She can run, but she can not hide! The fact is, the photos are coming back on the website. A website called “gutteruncensored” is now dares to publish the dirty pictures of Eli Wong! Oh! What a pity of her again!
The question is, does the website is trying to urge Eli Wong to declare the resignation from her post again? And of course, the Menteri Besar Selangor, Khalid Ibrahim has to back her up again? Oh God, what is the website trying to push now? Does the website notice that the photos are should not be publish to public? It’s a private collection now.
It was still shocking us that this issue is still on the run. Still keep in track. The website is still tracking down the pity Eli Wong to his seclusion area. Will Eli Wong take a legal action on the website? Will Eli Wong take another “peace of mind” trip again until the “disturbance” photos are taken out ever from the website? Will it ends the action against her private life?
The fact is, the issue is still on the “game”. It is not a game over yet. Most politicians, even from Barisan Nasional have their sympathy on her “incident”. Who is to blame? We cannot blame the ruling government about this shameful manner. How about her so called “ex-boyfriend”? Any news from that guy yet? The rumors spread so high that he is the one who is responsible for this “unmannerly” manners. Had he been caught yet? Is there any further investigations had been planned?
The character assassination through the “unmannerly” manners is can not be accepted. Most people have their sympathy of her. The Bukit Lanjan residents brought up posters “begging” for Eli Wong not to resign. They love her. They totally “forgive” her for the sleeping unconsciously half naked. They forgive her for allowing her “Malay” ex-boyfriend to sneaking in her house, taking her “forgiven” sleeping manners!
What about the PR politician leaders? Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim will for sure forgiving her on the “incident”. How about the “so called” PAS spiritual leader Dato’ Nik Aziz Nik Mat? He seems “liberal” and “forgive and forget” about this matter. He said that “the incident” should not been happened”. I can hardly heard anything coming from Karpal Singh accept of his “famous quote” of “Anwar Ibrahim harus bertaubat!”.
I wonder if something like this incident is happening to one of the Barisan Nasional female politician leader. How if this kind of incident involving Dato’ Seri Azalina or Rosnah Shirlin? Will they been forgiven? How if something of this happen to Ng Yen Yen? Will they been forgiven just the way of Eli Wong being forgiven right now? Or there will be just another political statement by the opposition leaders of Pakatan Rakyat against the them? Who knows? Politics is always unpredictable!
What should we do now? I do not have any access to shut down the “unconscious half naked” pictures of Eli Wong from the “website”. I still have a pity of her as a human being. She is the victim of some bloody character assassin out there. I think “somebody” have to do something to end this. That somebody is has to be either “the character assassin” or Eli Wong herself! The character assassin is hard to trace and there will be thousands of copies been spread out through the world!
Well, it seems to be Eli Wong herself to end this up? Will she again face the humiliation she is not meant to be? Should she resign to end up all this matter? Should the Bukit Lanjan assemblyman takes another “two month with paid” vacation? Or she will just repeat her statement “I will resign!”? Will she firm with the statement or she just make another “flip-flop” self interest political movement. Yet, is there another by-election await us at Bukit Lanjan of Selangor?
What a hell of disaster created by another Pakatan Rakyat leaders! After the resignation of Fairus of Penang with his “so called” arranged set up conspiration against him, yet comes the shadow of new by-election in Selangor. The by-election of course will cause Malaysia government millions of Ringgit. What a waste! Who made the Ringgit Malaysia wasted so easy? Looks like Pakatan Rakyat leaders. Is there any of Pakatan Rakyat” die hard fan realized about this fact? What a bitter to take!
Yet, the pictures issue had to be covered up first. Eli Wong will be demanded to answer the call. We just wait for her answer. Hope she will end this all last and forever. Please YB, you have to end this up. We have the pity of you, but…what a shame!
New Funicular Train, Is It Necessary?
Do we need new funicular trains up Penang Hill? Is it necessary to have new trains, especially in this trying time?
I agree with Penang Heritage Trust for condemning the plan by the state government to spend RM40 million to replace the funicular trains.
In a time where we ought to be prudent with our expenditures, Penang State Government have the audacity to proceed with something Penangites don’t actually need right now.
There are far better ways for the state government to spend RM40 million. Even though the budget was allocated by the federal government, I believe the state government can refuse and request the fund to be channeled out to more important and deserving projects considering the state government often chest thumping that they’re the people’s government.
The money can be used to improve roads, sewerage and other development programs. If they really want to spend on tourism product, they should consider putting the money in good use such as maintenance of heritage buildings or maybe introducing new tourism products.
The new funicular purportedly can reduce travelling time from 30 to 20 minutes. Yes, it can save our time travelling up there but for visitors, time is irrelevant. They want to enjoy the journey. They don’t want to see the beautiful flora and fauna whizz pass them at ‘warp speed’.
Penang Hill is a place where time is not an essence of necessity. Tourists want to waste time there. And travelling up there is part of this ‘time wasting’ sojourn. If you want to hurry things up, why go for holiday in the first place?
Numerous breakdowns were cited as a reason for this idea to get new funicular trains. Last year the trains stopped operation for almost 6 months due to technical problem.
With proper care and maintenance, the funicular train can still serve for many more years. I strongly believe this is not the right time to have new funicular train.
Mentioned earlier, the money should be put to good use that benefits the general public in Penang than a small group of hill dwellers and tourist who’re in a hurry. I actually don’t mind if the Ministry of Education hand out these e-book to all primary students. It’ll be much fairer as every student will have equal opportunity in getting better education.
I agree with Penang Heritage Trust for condemning the plan by the state government to spend RM40 million to replace the funicular trains.
In a time where we ought to be prudent with our expenditures, Penang State Government have the audacity to proceed with something Penangites don’t actually need right now.
There are far better ways for the state government to spend RM40 million. Even though the budget was allocated by the federal government, I believe the state government can refuse and request the fund to be channeled out to more important and deserving projects considering the state government often chest thumping that they’re the people’s government.
The money can be used to improve roads, sewerage and other development programs. If they really want to spend on tourism product, they should consider putting the money in good use such as maintenance of heritage buildings or maybe introducing new tourism products.
The new funicular purportedly can reduce travelling time from 30 to 20 minutes. Yes, it can save our time travelling up there but for visitors, time is irrelevant. They want to enjoy the journey. They don’t want to see the beautiful flora and fauna whizz pass them at ‘warp speed’.
Penang Hill is a place where time is not an essence of necessity. Tourists want to waste time there. And travelling up there is part of this ‘time wasting’ sojourn. If you want to hurry things up, why go for holiday in the first place?
Numerous breakdowns were cited as a reason for this idea to get new funicular trains. Last year the trains stopped operation for almost 6 months due to technical problem.
With proper care and maintenance, the funicular train can still serve for many more years. I strongly believe this is not the right time to have new funicular train.
Mentioned earlier, the money should be put to good use that benefits the general public in Penang than a small group of hill dwellers and tourist who’re in a hurry. I actually don’t mind if the Ministry of Education hand out these e-book to all primary students. It’ll be much fairer as every student will have equal opportunity in getting better education.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
TOWARDS A TRANSPARENT, OPEN AND DEMOCRATIC ELECTION
Its about time. They should have decided on this many years ago but somehow it fell on deaf ears.
Najib announced during his first UMNO Supreme Council meeting as President that UMNO will be having a special General Assembly at the end of the year.
The special General Assembly will bring forward the idea of amending party constitution pertaining party’s election process. This idea bring hope for a transparent, more open and democratic UMNO election.
A special committee had been selected to look into this matter. This committee will look into suggestion and propose a solution and mechanism for a better election process.
The current system is being criticized as it open up more opportunities for money politics. The recent UMNO election have tainted with numerous allegations on money politics.
Many cried foul that current system sidelined able and honest leaders from seeking election as money has been playing prominent role in the nomination and election process. This is an open secret where none in the UMNO circle can deny its existence.
This move however will bring hope and much needed boost that honest and committed are able to seek a fair election.
For a start the committee should think of a mechanism on how to make more members involved in the election process. If possible every member should be given the rights to elect their leaders, not limiting it to a few privilege members.
At this moment the ‘perwakilan’ are those who are casting their votes. They are supposed to represent the sentiment and desire of the grassroots. Unfortunately they failed to do so. They betrayed the grassroots by selecting their preference. This absolutely didn’t reflect the sentiments during the nomination process.
It’s no easy task considering there are millions of UMNO members all over the country. The committee should consider looking at how other political parties abroad conducts their election.
They should consider studying the election process in the largest democratic country in the world, India. The Congress Party might be able to help the committee on this matter.
But whatever it is, first and foremost is to find ways to conduct fair and clean election. The future of the party and the nation can’t be left in the hands of selected few. Let the majority decides who they want to lead the party and the decision to look into party’s election process is a good start on his first day chairing the UMNO Supreme Council meeting as President.
Najib announced during his first UMNO Supreme Council meeting as President that UMNO will be having a special General Assembly at the end of the year.
The special General Assembly will bring forward the idea of amending party constitution pertaining party’s election process. This idea bring hope for a transparent, more open and democratic UMNO election.
A special committee had been selected to look into this matter. This committee will look into suggestion and propose a solution and mechanism for a better election process.
The current system is being criticized as it open up more opportunities for money politics. The recent UMNO election have tainted with numerous allegations on money politics.
Many cried foul that current system sidelined able and honest leaders from seeking election as money has been playing prominent role in the nomination and election process. This is an open secret where none in the UMNO circle can deny its existence.
This move however will bring hope and much needed boost that honest and committed are able to seek a fair election.
For a start the committee should think of a mechanism on how to make more members involved in the election process. If possible every member should be given the rights to elect their leaders, not limiting it to a few privilege members.
At this moment the ‘perwakilan’ are those who are casting their votes. They are supposed to represent the sentiment and desire of the grassroots. Unfortunately they failed to do so. They betrayed the grassroots by selecting their preference. This absolutely didn’t reflect the sentiments during the nomination process.
It’s no easy task considering there are millions of UMNO members all over the country. The committee should consider looking at how other political parties abroad conducts their election.
They should consider studying the election process in the largest democratic country in the world, India. The Congress Party might be able to help the committee on this matter.
But whatever it is, first and foremost is to find ways to conduct fair and clean election. The future of the party and the nation can’t be left in the hands of selected few. Let the majority decides who they want to lead the party and the decision to look into party’s election process is a good start on his first day chairing the UMNO Supreme Council meeting as President.
UMNO TO ENGAGE THE 'YOUNGLINGS'
Ahmad Maslan the Member of Parliament from Pontian was elected as UMNO Information Chief. It came as a surprise to many as he’s unknown to outsiders and even among UMNO grassroots outside Johor.
However I don’t think this is a big problem to begin with. What I would like to know is ‘What are his plans for UMNO?’
I don’t think an Information Chief only function as someone who send word to the grassroots vice versa.
Information Chief has bigger role to play in making sure the sentiments from the leadership are passed down to the grassroots and the desire from the grassroots reached the top echelon of the party leadership.
There shouldn’t be any communication breakdown. Information Chief should be the person to advice the party leadership of any problem besetting the party.
Ahmad Maslan mentioned that he would like to bridge the generation gap. This is nothing new as almost everyone in UMNO promised to listen and talk to the youth but somehow I don’t see any significant changes in support from the youth. What I can say is that he has a lot of work to do.
The younglings today are very well informed group of people. They are well versed with information technology. In this case, Ahmad Maslan should consider embracing information technology.
He should consider shedding any ‘holier than thou’ and patronizing attitude. They are quite wary whenever politicians try to get close to them. They have a notion that all politicians have hidden agenda whenever they politicians try to get ‘intimate’ with them.
I can’t blame them. Many patronizing politicians tried to impose strict regime on them. These are the age group where ‘restriction’ and ‘rules’ are equivalent to death penalty. He needs to thread this carefully, find out ways on how to give what they want and at the same time getting the message across to them younglings.
The government and UMNO should engage the youngsters in debate. Talk to them and find out more about their opinions. Currently there are none representing them. Their opinions are not heard. What the Youth Wings in BN representing are voices and needs of the not-that-young-anymore-youth.
What about the needs of the skate boarders, Mat Rempits, underground musicians, school drop outs, unemployed grads etc? Who are their representatives? We can’t ignore their presence.
Ahmad Maslan should suggest to Najib to relax some ruling in AUKU. This Act has affected the youth more than any other age group. They felt that their voices have been silenced by this Act. Give some room for them to voice out their idealism through political activities.
Relaxing AUKU may give birth to nuisance. But then again, if the government gives its best to serve the country, there’s nothing for young firebrands to complaint.
Whatever it is, Ahmad Maslan should walk the talk. If he intend to engage the younglings and talk to them, go ahead but for a start please don’t talk politics with them.
However I don’t think this is a big problem to begin with. What I would like to know is ‘What are his plans for UMNO?’
I don’t think an Information Chief only function as someone who send word to the grassroots vice versa.
Information Chief has bigger role to play in making sure the sentiments from the leadership are passed down to the grassroots and the desire from the grassroots reached the top echelon of the party leadership.
There shouldn’t be any communication breakdown. Information Chief should be the person to advice the party leadership of any problem besetting the party.
Ahmad Maslan mentioned that he would like to bridge the generation gap. This is nothing new as almost everyone in UMNO promised to listen and talk to the youth but somehow I don’t see any significant changes in support from the youth. What I can say is that he has a lot of work to do.
The younglings today are very well informed group of people. They are well versed with information technology. In this case, Ahmad Maslan should consider embracing information technology.
He should consider shedding any ‘holier than thou’ and patronizing attitude. They are quite wary whenever politicians try to get close to them. They have a notion that all politicians have hidden agenda whenever they politicians try to get ‘intimate’ with them.
I can’t blame them. Many patronizing politicians tried to impose strict regime on them. These are the age group where ‘restriction’ and ‘rules’ are equivalent to death penalty. He needs to thread this carefully, find out ways on how to give what they want and at the same time getting the message across to them younglings.
The government and UMNO should engage the youngsters in debate. Talk to them and find out more about their opinions. Currently there are none representing them. Their opinions are not heard. What the Youth Wings in BN representing are voices and needs of the not-that-young-anymore-youth.
What about the needs of the skate boarders, Mat Rempits, underground musicians, school drop outs, unemployed grads etc? Who are their representatives? We can’t ignore their presence.
Ahmad Maslan should suggest to Najib to relax some ruling in AUKU. This Act has affected the youth more than any other age group. They felt that their voices have been silenced by this Act. Give some room for them to voice out their idealism through political activities.
Relaxing AUKU may give birth to nuisance. But then again, if the government gives its best to serve the country, there’s nothing for young firebrands to complaint.
Whatever it is, Ahmad Maslan should walk the talk. If he intend to engage the younglings and talk to them, go ahead but for a start please don’t talk politics with them.
LOOK MOM. IT’S THE PRIME MINISTER!
Not bad, not bad. Twice within a month he went out and sees for himself life in Kuala Lumpur. He surprised many with his visit.
Earlier this month he visited 3 predominantly Malay, Chinese and Indian areas namely Pantai Dalam, Petaling Street and Brickfields.
And yesterday he visited 2 areas important to the middle and lower income, Jln Masjid India and Puduraya respectively. Those 2 areas are special to me when I first step into KL.
For many, Puduraya is the first place they step foot in KL. It is the first iconic building that greets them when they disembarked from their bus. It’s the same with me. And the funny thing, the place hasn’t changed much since I first set foot here in KL 10 years ago.
It’s about time someone like the Prime Minister serve a reminder to the relevant party to expedite the completion of Plaza Rakyat. Imagine the feeling being greeted by a gigantic eyesore, Plaza Rakyat. It’s like being treated like a 3rd class citizen. Can’t they at least greet us with something of beauty?
You don’t see tourist being greeted by ‘half complete’ KLIA or KL Sentral? At these places, any sign of possible eyesore will be dealt immediately.
And here we have Plaza Rakyat, an eyesore of mega proportion welcoming us. The building itself is a metaphor of how life is going to be in KL. It’s big but doesn’t mean it’s always beautiful.
So the question now, is he going to continue with this ‘spot check’? If he plan to make this his monthly rendezvous, he should consider visiting the outskirts and other states.
I’m suggesting places like Pasar Borong Selayang,Seri Kembangan & Balakong, Tmn Connaught, Rawang, Kajang, Klang etc. Like I mentioned earlier, do visit some pekan or kampong unannounced whenever he is at any states.
He should also consider making this a real deal. Forget about informing the relevant Ministers or Chief Minister. Take a car together with his bodyguard and drive around like stealth unknown to the general public. Please, surprise us citizens. It might win some votes and I don’t driving him around as long as he’s paying for the toll and petrol.
Leave his outriders and try taking the LRT from Bukit Jalil to PWTC. Or maybe travel along the Federal Highway during peak hour. To be a ‘pemimpin berjiwa rakyat’, he should feel our agonizing pain.
This unassuming act reminds me of Sultan Alauddin Ri’ayat Shah who was famous for going undercover at night checking the well being of his rakyat.
I also hope other Ministers and Chief Ministers would follow suit. They should visit places that are relevant to their ministry. In this case I think the Tourism Minister has an enviable job.
Earlier this month he visited 3 predominantly Malay, Chinese and Indian areas namely Pantai Dalam, Petaling Street and Brickfields.
And yesterday he visited 2 areas important to the middle and lower income, Jln Masjid India and Puduraya respectively. Those 2 areas are special to me when I first step into KL.
For many, Puduraya is the first place they step foot in KL. It is the first iconic building that greets them when they disembarked from their bus. It’s the same with me. And the funny thing, the place hasn’t changed much since I first set foot here in KL 10 years ago.
It’s about time someone like the Prime Minister serve a reminder to the relevant party to expedite the completion of Plaza Rakyat. Imagine the feeling being greeted by a gigantic eyesore, Plaza Rakyat. It’s like being treated like a 3rd class citizen. Can’t they at least greet us with something of beauty?
You don’t see tourist being greeted by ‘half complete’ KLIA or KL Sentral? At these places, any sign of possible eyesore will be dealt immediately.
And here we have Plaza Rakyat, an eyesore of mega proportion welcoming us. The building itself is a metaphor of how life is going to be in KL. It’s big but doesn’t mean it’s always beautiful.
So the question now, is he going to continue with this ‘spot check’? If he plan to make this his monthly rendezvous, he should consider visiting the outskirts and other states.
I’m suggesting places like Pasar Borong Selayang,Seri Kembangan & Balakong, Tmn Connaught, Rawang, Kajang, Klang etc. Like I mentioned earlier, do visit some pekan or kampong unannounced whenever he is at any states.
He should also consider making this a real deal. Forget about informing the relevant Ministers or Chief Minister. Take a car together with his bodyguard and drive around like stealth unknown to the general public. Please, surprise us citizens. It might win some votes and I don’t driving him around as long as he’s paying for the toll and petrol.
Leave his outriders and try taking the LRT from Bukit Jalil to PWTC. Or maybe travel along the Federal Highway during peak hour. To be a ‘pemimpin berjiwa rakyat’, he should feel our agonizing pain.
This unassuming act reminds me of Sultan Alauddin Ri’ayat Shah who was famous for going undercover at night checking the well being of his rakyat.
I also hope other Ministers and Chief Ministers would follow suit. They should visit places that are relevant to their ministry. In this case I think the Tourism Minister has an enviable job.
LIBERALISING THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Earlier he announced liberalizing 27 subsector in the service industry. He made a lot of people happy with the announcement.
Tomorrow he’ll be announcing similar liberalizing plan for the finance industry. I’m not sure what the plan going to be but many hopes it’ll be on foreign equity in the finance sector.
Many known that the finance sector in Malaysia is somewhat protected and almost close. Only recently we see a sudden surge in foreign finance houses coming into Malaysia. We’ve seen Citibank, Standard & Charted and HSBC increasing their presence in this country. So what’s next in store for us?
Last night during the news bulletin, NTV7 did a poll asking whether the government should consider abolishing Approved Permit or AP. The result came out with 98% respondents’ supports the suggestion to abolish AP.
AP is a thorn in the flesh for the government. When it was first introduced the purpose is to encourage Bumiputra participation in business. Unfortunately many had misused this opportunity. These basically irked the non-Bumis and many felt the exorbitant price we have to pay for automobile was caused by this approved permits.
Many parties had called for the abolishment of approved permits but somehow the government is reluctant to let it go.
The recent hive of activities in liberalizing a few sectors brought back the idea about abolishing the approved permits. Many believe now is the time to open up our automotive sector.
Our National Automotive Policy needed to be re-look into. We’re the only country in South East Asia with its own national automotive industry. Unfortunately we’re less appealing to other automotive brands.
We have well trained automotive expert who are at least by-lingual but somehow these are not attractive enough compare to Thailand with better policies and incentives for foreign manufacturer to set up base there.
They also have cheap labor and they foreign manufacturers felt language is not a problem for as long they just follow instruction.
Our local automotive industry can afford to run on its own without any protection. The recent launch of Exora showed that Proton can stand on its own merit. In a few years time they can compete globally. Getting rid and let them compete on equal ground will push them to work harder and improve their products in order to survive,
After the finance sector, I hope the Prime Minister will consider liberalizing the automotive sector. Let’s open up our automotive industry to make our product more competitive. Proton and Perodua need to live in real world where products are judged by their quality and service.
Like what Najib and his ministers are doing, Proton and Perodua need to talk to the rakyat too.
Tomorrow he’ll be announcing similar liberalizing plan for the finance industry. I’m not sure what the plan going to be but many hopes it’ll be on foreign equity in the finance sector.
Many known that the finance sector in Malaysia is somewhat protected and almost close. Only recently we see a sudden surge in foreign finance houses coming into Malaysia. We’ve seen Citibank, Standard & Charted and HSBC increasing their presence in this country. So what’s next in store for us?
Last night during the news bulletin, NTV7 did a poll asking whether the government should consider abolishing Approved Permit or AP. The result came out with 98% respondents’ supports the suggestion to abolish AP.
AP is a thorn in the flesh for the government. When it was first introduced the purpose is to encourage Bumiputra participation in business. Unfortunately many had misused this opportunity. These basically irked the non-Bumis and many felt the exorbitant price we have to pay for automobile was caused by this approved permits.
Many parties had called for the abolishment of approved permits but somehow the government is reluctant to let it go.
The recent hive of activities in liberalizing a few sectors brought back the idea about abolishing the approved permits. Many believe now is the time to open up our automotive sector.
Our National Automotive Policy needed to be re-look into. We’re the only country in South East Asia with its own national automotive industry. Unfortunately we’re less appealing to other automotive brands.
We have well trained automotive expert who are at least by-lingual but somehow these are not attractive enough compare to Thailand with better policies and incentives for foreign manufacturer to set up base there.
They also have cheap labor and they foreign manufacturers felt language is not a problem for as long they just follow instruction.
Our local automotive industry can afford to run on its own without any protection. The recent launch of Exora showed that Proton can stand on its own merit. In a few years time they can compete globally. Getting rid and let them compete on equal ground will push them to work harder and improve their products in order to survive,
After the finance sector, I hope the Prime Minister will consider liberalizing the automotive sector. Let’s open up our automotive industry to make our product more competitive. Proton and Perodua need to live in real world where products are judged by their quality and service.
Like what Najib and his ministers are doing, Proton and Perodua need to talk to the rakyat too.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
WHERE IS THE DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER?
I don’t understand why it takes them so long to name a Deputy Chief Minister. Till today there’s no sign the post will be filled soon.
Is the position least important that they can afford to delay naming a candidate? Is the position more of symbolic nature than a practical and functioning position?
Guan Eng and Anwar have a lot of answering to do. They can point fingers but doing such thing won’t settle the problem.
What they need to do now is to put the interest of the Malays in Penang at the fore front. The
Deputy Chief Minister is to represent the Malays in making any executive decision.
Who is doing that right now? How long the Penang Malays going to be leader-less? Who is taking care of their interest?
Delaying appointing someone to fill the vacant position shows PKR is lacking of reliable candidate. From the pool of Malay ADUNs in Penang, I’m quite surprised that they can’t find someone that’s able to undertake that responsibility.
Can’t Guan Eng ask Anwar to expedite the appointment? Not doing so further proof that Guan Eng is tooth less Chief Minister. He has to ‘kow tow’ to Anwar.
Can someone please tell me; is that the spirit in Pakatan Rakyat? From what I can see, it seems there’s only one leader leading the whole bunch. Everyone including leaders from other parties within the coalition have to listen or wait for Anwar’s respond on whatever issue.
Where do we go from here? Is Anwar going to wait until PR wins Penanti by-election before he announce the candidate?
In this predicament, the losing party is not DAP or PKR. It is the rekyat who are bound to suffer.
The ‘adhesive’ that binds together all PR members is not strong as it was used to be.
This situation further proves that this coalition is a marriage of convenient. They one have common ‘enemy’ in BN. But unfortunately they can’t fight together under 1 voice. We can see that in Penang.
Now the ball is in their court. The Malays in Penang have to decide what s best for them. They have to demand a Deputy Chief Minister to be appointed as soon as possible. They can choose to ignore or decide using the ballot box.
BN shouldn’t rest on their laurel. They have to start work now and think of ways to wrest control Penang from PR. Fail to do so at the coming General Election, will mean that it’s going to be difficult task to win the hearts of Penangite.
Is the position least important that they can afford to delay naming a candidate? Is the position more of symbolic nature than a practical and functioning position?
Guan Eng and Anwar have a lot of answering to do. They can point fingers but doing such thing won’t settle the problem.
What they need to do now is to put the interest of the Malays in Penang at the fore front. The
Deputy Chief Minister is to represent the Malays in making any executive decision.
Who is doing that right now? How long the Penang Malays going to be leader-less? Who is taking care of their interest?
Delaying appointing someone to fill the vacant position shows PKR is lacking of reliable candidate. From the pool of Malay ADUNs in Penang, I’m quite surprised that they can’t find someone that’s able to undertake that responsibility.
Can’t Guan Eng ask Anwar to expedite the appointment? Not doing so further proof that Guan Eng is tooth less Chief Minister. He has to ‘kow tow’ to Anwar.
Can someone please tell me; is that the spirit in Pakatan Rakyat? From what I can see, it seems there’s only one leader leading the whole bunch. Everyone including leaders from other parties within the coalition have to listen or wait for Anwar’s respond on whatever issue.
Where do we go from here? Is Anwar going to wait until PR wins Penanti by-election before he announce the candidate?
In this predicament, the losing party is not DAP or PKR. It is the rekyat who are bound to suffer.
The ‘adhesive’ that binds together all PR members is not strong as it was used to be.
This situation further proves that this coalition is a marriage of convenient. They one have common ‘enemy’ in BN. But unfortunately they can’t fight together under 1 voice. We can see that in Penang.
Now the ball is in their court. The Malays in Penang have to decide what s best for them. They have to demand a Deputy Chief Minister to be appointed as soon as possible. They can choose to ignore or decide using the ballot box.
BN shouldn’t rest on their laurel. They have to start work now and think of ways to wrest control Penang from PR. Fail to do so at the coming General Election, will mean that it’s going to be difficult task to win the hearts of Penangite.
“WHO IS DOLLAH KOK LANAS?”
How much do you know about our nation’s history? How well versed are you when it comes to the history of your kampong? How did they come up with ‘Batang Berjuntai’? What ‘Batang’ and whose ‘Batang’ were they talking about?
You’ll be surprised how irrelevant history has become. No one really care about history and yet these are the same people who’re shouting about ‘Kedaulatan Raja’. The situation is that they’re fighting blindly for something they don’t understand really well.
Its not a problem to fight or struggle for a cause. But it is a problem when you’re fighting for something you’re not clear about. How are you going to justify your cause when you know nothing about it?
That’s the problem with our youth today. They don’t know history and yet they’re fighting for ‘hak-hak orang Melayu’. I think these bunch of idiots have never read the constitution.
It’ll be good if they know what they’re fighting for instead of answering “Ntah lah? Depa suruh aku pegang sepanduk, aku pegang lah. Janji masyuk!” when asked why are they doing what they’re doing now?
The days of gathering and paying students to line up by the roadside to greet the Prime Minister is over. It’s not about volume or numbers of people showing support, it’s about the quality of those giving support. I’d rather have 1 smart assistant than 10 nodding donkeys!
Yesterday a friend of mine called for a drink. I declined the offer as I’ll be interviewing Dollah Kok Lanas on the same day. He asked “Siapa Dollah Kok Lanas?” which I don’t find it amusing.
He got a very long tongue lashing from me. You see, I don’t mind if he’s dumb, stupid or plain ignorant about our history. But for someone who ran for ‘Exco Pemuda UMNO’, this is no excuse. And luckily he lost that race as I can’t see Pemuda UMNO being led by such person of low knowledge.
So now it goes back to what kind of leaders are we expect to lead us in the future. I think it’s high time for UMNO to take a look at their future leaders. Train them. Groom them and feed them with knowledge. You don’t want these young leaders becoming the whipping boys simply because of their lack of knowledge.
Remember, knowledge is power and without knowledge you’re simply powerless and hopeless.
And of course we don’t want someone of low knowledge to be in power. So start now before you’re left with nincompoops as your choice to lead the country.
You’ll be surprised how irrelevant history has become. No one really care about history and yet these are the same people who’re shouting about ‘Kedaulatan Raja’. The situation is that they’re fighting blindly for something they don’t understand really well.
Its not a problem to fight or struggle for a cause. But it is a problem when you’re fighting for something you’re not clear about. How are you going to justify your cause when you know nothing about it?
That’s the problem with our youth today. They don’t know history and yet they’re fighting for ‘hak-hak orang Melayu’. I think these bunch of idiots have never read the constitution.
It’ll be good if they know what they’re fighting for instead of answering “Ntah lah? Depa suruh aku pegang sepanduk, aku pegang lah. Janji masyuk!” when asked why are they doing what they’re doing now?
The days of gathering and paying students to line up by the roadside to greet the Prime Minister is over. It’s not about volume or numbers of people showing support, it’s about the quality of those giving support. I’d rather have 1 smart assistant than 10 nodding donkeys!
Yesterday a friend of mine called for a drink. I declined the offer as I’ll be interviewing Dollah Kok Lanas on the same day. He asked “Siapa Dollah Kok Lanas?” which I don’t find it amusing.
He got a very long tongue lashing from me. You see, I don’t mind if he’s dumb, stupid or plain ignorant about our history. But for someone who ran for ‘Exco Pemuda UMNO’, this is no excuse. And luckily he lost that race as I can’t see Pemuda UMNO being led by such person of low knowledge.
So now it goes back to what kind of leaders are we expect to lead us in the future. I think it’s high time for UMNO to take a look at their future leaders. Train them. Groom them and feed them with knowledge. You don’t want these young leaders becoming the whipping boys simply because of their lack of knowledge.
Remember, knowledge is power and without knowledge you’re simply powerless and hopeless.
And of course we don’t want someone of low knowledge to be in power. So start now before you’re left with nincompoops as your choice to lead the country.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
HOW MUCH IS THAT HIGHWAY?
What a relief hearing that the government is looking into toll concession seriously. I hope this will not turn into another ‘Janji Manismu’
The government sometimes sweetened our thoughts with promises to look into some matters. Hoping that in a few months, these issues will be long forgotten.
And sometimes when they really meant it, the result from “we will look into this matter” is less than satisfying.
The government must sincerely ask themselves whether they’re serious in tackling this thorny issue. Toll is no laughing matter. Malaysians livelihood are inter-related to how cheap these toll charges are. If they government promise to look into it, they better do it.
The Economic Planning Unit mentioned that they need 3 months to do their research and find the best solution to this nationwide woe.
Whatever it is, in 3 months time I expect and answer. I would like to know the solutions they’ve come up with after 3 months of hibernating with the files. What I would like to know whether the final solution is the best solution or the most logical answer to our problems.
I hope after 3 months the government will come up with conclusive answers, and not asking for extension. The rakyat are getting impatient. If possible, they would like the toll rates to be reduced by tomorrow.
If the government decided to take over PLUS Highway, I hope they’ll come clean about the evaluation.
There were a few cases where the compensation given was overvalued. I hope the EPU is not trying to make somebody rich in split seconds. They’ll jack up the price and value of the shares.
It ended when something worth a few hundred million Ringgit was evaluated more than what they’re worth, and that evaluation goes into billion Ringgit figure.
I hope the government would offer a fair amount to the share holders. Too expensive and it’ll make some dent on our national reserves. Too cheap and the shareholders aren’t going to be happy.
If the government can’t buy over all highways, I hope they would consider PLUS Highway and LDP as priorities. These 2 highways are like arteries running through our body. Anything less than a ‘buyout’ means the government is not serious enough in settling the problem at the toll booth. And please don’t try to turn anyone into instant millionaire.
The government sometimes sweetened our thoughts with promises to look into some matters. Hoping that in a few months, these issues will be long forgotten.
And sometimes when they really meant it, the result from “we will look into this matter” is less than satisfying.
The government must sincerely ask themselves whether they’re serious in tackling this thorny issue. Toll is no laughing matter. Malaysians livelihood are inter-related to how cheap these toll charges are. If they government promise to look into it, they better do it.
The Economic Planning Unit mentioned that they need 3 months to do their research and find the best solution to this nationwide woe.
Whatever it is, in 3 months time I expect and answer. I would like to know the solutions they’ve come up with after 3 months of hibernating with the files. What I would like to know whether the final solution is the best solution or the most logical answer to our problems.
I hope after 3 months the government will come up with conclusive answers, and not asking for extension. The rakyat are getting impatient. If possible, they would like the toll rates to be reduced by tomorrow.
If the government decided to take over PLUS Highway, I hope they’ll come clean about the evaluation.
There were a few cases where the compensation given was overvalued. I hope the EPU is not trying to make somebody rich in split seconds. They’ll jack up the price and value of the shares.
It ended when something worth a few hundred million Ringgit was evaluated more than what they’re worth, and that evaluation goes into billion Ringgit figure.
I hope the government would offer a fair amount to the share holders. Too expensive and it’ll make some dent on our national reserves. Too cheap and the shareholders aren’t going to be happy.
If the government can’t buy over all highways, I hope they would consider PLUS Highway and LDP as priorities. These 2 highways are like arteries running through our body. Anything less than a ‘buyout’ means the government is not serious enough in settling the problem at the toll booth. And please don’t try to turn anyone into instant millionaire.
RIGHT BRAIN INDUSTRY
This is the time to look for or identify true friends. In this trying time true friends are hard to come by. But sometimes this comes from someone unexpected.
The economic uncertainties brought along uncertainties into our life. Many continuously wondering about their future and wonders when would these uncertainties will stop?
What can we do about it? This is something beyond our control. Borrowing from Billy Joel, “we didn’t start the fire.”
What can we do to ease our sufferings? What about those retrenched? The government thru its Human resources Ministry is planning numerous schemes to retrain and repackage our work force. Is this enough?
What about those areas of expertise that are seldom talked about. Let’s take creative industry for example. Have anyone thought about the livelihood of those in the creative industry?
Creative industry usually will be the first affected by any economic uncertainties. In this internet age, creative industry contributes significantly to the economy but unfortunately it’s also the least represented industry nationwide.
There’s no national trade union representing those in the creative industry. There are numerous organizations or associations within the entertainment industry but only serve their interest and most of them are redundant. You can see more than 3 associations representing the same group of people.
In- cohesiveness caused many in the creative industry to suffer and also caused many not to take this industry seriously. Subjective is the core of creativity. There’s no mathematical formula in finding creative solutions. This also caused many not to make creative as their lifetime career.
What the industry needs to do to be taken seriously is to have a proper working frame and regulation to regulate the industry. Singapore is doing that and is now ahead of us by light years.
They saw the future in creative industry and they worked for it. Today they’ve managed to entice among the best creative minds in this region and also bringing creative industry players from the western hemisphere to Singapore.
What are we doing? We have gargantuan plans to make this country into a creative hub but a plan will always be a plan if we don’t take any action.
One of the first things we need to do if we’re really serious in developing the creative industry is to have one ministry to monitor and develop the creative and media industry. Right now there are so many ministries overlooking this industry. It’s slowing us down when our neighbors are moving at warp speed and leaving us behind.
I hope the government will look into this matter seriously and recognize the importance of this industry to the economy. The current economy downturn is affecting those in this industry.
Many are without jobs and nowhere else to go. They’re not engineers where they can be employed in other industries because they only work with their right brain.
The economic uncertainties brought along uncertainties into our life. Many continuously wondering about their future and wonders when would these uncertainties will stop?
What can we do about it? This is something beyond our control. Borrowing from Billy Joel, “we didn’t start the fire.”
What can we do to ease our sufferings? What about those retrenched? The government thru its Human resources Ministry is planning numerous schemes to retrain and repackage our work force. Is this enough?
What about those areas of expertise that are seldom talked about. Let’s take creative industry for example. Have anyone thought about the livelihood of those in the creative industry?
Creative industry usually will be the first affected by any economic uncertainties. In this internet age, creative industry contributes significantly to the economy but unfortunately it’s also the least represented industry nationwide.
There’s no national trade union representing those in the creative industry. There are numerous organizations or associations within the entertainment industry but only serve their interest and most of them are redundant. You can see more than 3 associations representing the same group of people.
In- cohesiveness caused many in the creative industry to suffer and also caused many not to take this industry seriously. Subjective is the core of creativity. There’s no mathematical formula in finding creative solutions. This also caused many not to make creative as their lifetime career.
What the industry needs to do to be taken seriously is to have a proper working frame and regulation to regulate the industry. Singapore is doing that and is now ahead of us by light years.
They saw the future in creative industry and they worked for it. Today they’ve managed to entice among the best creative minds in this region and also bringing creative industry players from the western hemisphere to Singapore.
What are we doing? We have gargantuan plans to make this country into a creative hub but a plan will always be a plan if we don’t take any action.
One of the first things we need to do if we’re really serious in developing the creative industry is to have one ministry to monitor and develop the creative and media industry. Right now there are so many ministries overlooking this industry. It’s slowing us down when our neighbors are moving at warp speed and leaving us behind.
I hope the government will look into this matter seriously and recognize the importance of this industry to the economy. The current economy downturn is affecting those in this industry.
Many are without jobs and nowhere else to go. They’re not engineers where they can be employed in other industries because they only work with their right brain.
NO VICTORY FOR ANYONE
We’re back to square one. All parties maintained their seats in respective by-elections. Nothing changed. But there are some bruised egos.
BN brought along its Ayam Tambatan, Tun Dr.Mahathir but it remained unchanged. What’s the outlook now? Are these by-elections reflects on the rakyat’s supports towards Najib? Or it’s too early to be used as a barometer?
Yes, some might point fingers at BN and say “You lost.” But the truth is, no one lost. There wasn’t much difference in the majority won. Everything remains unchanged. But the question is, will things remain the same once all the election machineries pack their bags?
PR will claim victory despite them not gaining any extra seats. But what about BN? Are they gonna claim victory too? I don’t think so, infact from this point onwards they should plan ahead for PRU13. BN has lost a lot of grounds and they need to make head start now for the next election.
There’s no need to do post mortem. No point in doing that. BN have known the problems since losing 4 states but unfortunately they’ve never done anything to rectify it.
The rakyat has lost trust in BN and UMNO. They thought the recent UMNO election will be the catharsis to refresh the spirit but unfortunately it didn’t change much. A proven corrupt is leading the wing. What kind of image is UMNO trying to show?
UMNO can’t handle corruptions within the party and they plan to lead a constituency? Yeah, keep on dreaming my friends!
OK enough of ‘hentam-ing’. Lets look at the bright side. The result from these by-elections gives a clearer picture of how things are today. It shows that nothing has changed since PRU12, which is better than losing more seats.
This gives Najib a starting point to plot his changes. From here, everyone knows where to start.
But how and what to start with is another question need to be answered.
The cabinet will be a good start. It’ll reflect on the sort of government Najib is leading. Nail this or forever he will lose the rakyat’s trust.
Leaders from all UMNO wings shouldn’t be given any post. They should concentrate and concert their effort in winning back the heart and soul of the rakyat.
Power should be given to entity such as Badan Perhubungan BN Negeri, if there is one. Over time we always hear about Badan Pehubungan UMNO Negeri taking doing most of the action and each component parties have their respective task force.
Since Najib is talking about One Malaysia, why not we establish or give more prominence to Badan Perhubungan BN Negeri. And this should be lead by capable local leaders from any ethnics. This would give clearer signal that BN is about power sharing not monopolized by one party.
BN brought along its Ayam Tambatan, Tun Dr.Mahathir but it remained unchanged. What’s the outlook now? Are these by-elections reflects on the rakyat’s supports towards Najib? Or it’s too early to be used as a barometer?
Yes, some might point fingers at BN and say “You lost.” But the truth is, no one lost. There wasn’t much difference in the majority won. Everything remains unchanged. But the question is, will things remain the same once all the election machineries pack their bags?
PR will claim victory despite them not gaining any extra seats. But what about BN? Are they gonna claim victory too? I don’t think so, infact from this point onwards they should plan ahead for PRU13. BN has lost a lot of grounds and they need to make head start now for the next election.
There’s no need to do post mortem. No point in doing that. BN have known the problems since losing 4 states but unfortunately they’ve never done anything to rectify it.
The rakyat has lost trust in BN and UMNO. They thought the recent UMNO election will be the catharsis to refresh the spirit but unfortunately it didn’t change much. A proven corrupt is leading the wing. What kind of image is UMNO trying to show?
UMNO can’t handle corruptions within the party and they plan to lead a constituency? Yeah, keep on dreaming my friends!
OK enough of ‘hentam-ing’. Lets look at the bright side. The result from these by-elections gives a clearer picture of how things are today. It shows that nothing has changed since PRU12, which is better than losing more seats.
This gives Najib a starting point to plot his changes. From here, everyone knows where to start.
But how and what to start with is another question need to be answered.
The cabinet will be a good start. It’ll reflect on the sort of government Najib is leading. Nail this or forever he will lose the rakyat’s trust.
Leaders from all UMNO wings shouldn’t be given any post. They should concentrate and concert their effort in winning back the heart and soul of the rakyat.
Power should be given to entity such as Badan Perhubungan BN Negeri, if there is one. Over time we always hear about Badan Pehubungan UMNO Negeri taking doing most of the action and each component parties have their respective task force.
Since Najib is talking about One Malaysia, why not we establish or give more prominence to Badan Perhubungan BN Negeri. And this should be lead by capable local leaders from any ethnics. This would give clearer signal that BN is about power sharing not monopolized by one party.
TAXI DRIVER: “ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?”
Lately we’ve a lot of complaints lodge against taxi drivers in Kalng Valley. These complaints vary from refuse to pick up passenger, refuse to use meter, overcharging and other offences.
These complaints also come from tourist and foreigners. Most common grouse is overcharging.
This somehow put us in the same league as other 3rd world countries.
Problems with taxi drivers are long standing issues that haven’t been resolved since ice age. The country has changed Prime Ministers and a few other ministers that were supposed to handle the problem, but unfortunately it is still there unresolved.
For the past few weeks we’ve heard about JPJ and LPKP or Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board conducting spot checks using undercovers to apprehend taxi flouting the licensing rules.
So what’s the result? Is there a sudden change in their (taxi driver) attitude? Do you see more taxi driver using meter and not overcharging? The answer is a simple ‘No’.
The relevant bodies are at lost in handling the taxi drivers. Numerous methods were used to address these problems. Countless compounds were given but it came to no end. So what else can the authority do?
The answer is simple. “Talk to them”. Fortunately the authorities have spoken to them ‘decades’ ago and the problem still exist. Not much has been done.
They taxi driver have requested the government to raise the fares. This fare has been in existence for the past 12 years. Since then, everything has gone up except taxi fares.
The rise in cost of living eats up into their daily take home income. The government authorities know how much a taxi driver can earn a day and how much is their daily cost to operate a taxi.
The government can’t simply raise the fares to offset what the taxi driver lost daily due to high operating cost. Just to please 25,000 taxi drivers, the rest of the rakyat have to put up with higher taxi fare.
So what else can the government do? For a start the government should consider giving individual permits to all taxi drivers. Abolish monopolistic system in taxi operation. Give taxi drivers choice whether they want to operate under a company or individually.
On average a taxi driver have to pay the taxi company RM1,500 a month to rent a taxi. After 4 years the taxi will be theirs. If you do the maths, a taxi driver spent RM72,000 for a Proton Iswara taxi that cost less than RM35,000.
In a nutshell, the taxi drivers are subsidizing more than 100% profits earned by the company.
What do the taxi driver got after 4 years? Nothing, except a 4 year old Proton Iswara taxi. And they don’t even have a permit under their name.
All this one sided terms made them turn into rogue taxi drivers. They have to overcharge for a living. This is nothing new and the government has done nothing to address this long existing problem. Stop this monopolistic business. Let them taxi driver earn their living. The taxi companies have been leeching taxi drivers hard work for God knows how many years.
If Najib want to talk about service to the people, this is his chance. By stopping taxi monopoly, the government can defer raising taxi fares as the take home income will be much better for the taxi drivers. They might not resort to overcharging or flouting meter ruling. As a result, he’ll make millions of passengers happy. That’s 25,000 votes from taxi drivers plus a few million votes from happy passengers.
These complaints also come from tourist and foreigners. Most common grouse is overcharging.
This somehow put us in the same league as other 3rd world countries.
Problems with taxi drivers are long standing issues that haven’t been resolved since ice age. The country has changed Prime Ministers and a few other ministers that were supposed to handle the problem, but unfortunately it is still there unresolved.
For the past few weeks we’ve heard about JPJ and LPKP or Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board conducting spot checks using undercovers to apprehend taxi flouting the licensing rules.
So what’s the result? Is there a sudden change in their (taxi driver) attitude? Do you see more taxi driver using meter and not overcharging? The answer is a simple ‘No’.
The relevant bodies are at lost in handling the taxi drivers. Numerous methods were used to address these problems. Countless compounds were given but it came to no end. So what else can the authority do?
The answer is simple. “Talk to them”. Fortunately the authorities have spoken to them ‘decades’ ago and the problem still exist. Not much has been done.
They taxi driver have requested the government to raise the fares. This fare has been in existence for the past 12 years. Since then, everything has gone up except taxi fares.
The rise in cost of living eats up into their daily take home income. The government authorities know how much a taxi driver can earn a day and how much is their daily cost to operate a taxi.
The government can’t simply raise the fares to offset what the taxi driver lost daily due to high operating cost. Just to please 25,000 taxi drivers, the rest of the rakyat have to put up with higher taxi fare.
So what else can the government do? For a start the government should consider giving individual permits to all taxi drivers. Abolish monopolistic system in taxi operation. Give taxi drivers choice whether they want to operate under a company or individually.
On average a taxi driver have to pay the taxi company RM1,500 a month to rent a taxi. After 4 years the taxi will be theirs. If you do the maths, a taxi driver spent RM72,000 for a Proton Iswara taxi that cost less than RM35,000.
In a nutshell, the taxi drivers are subsidizing more than 100% profits earned by the company.
What do the taxi driver got after 4 years? Nothing, except a 4 year old Proton Iswara taxi. And they don’t even have a permit under their name.
All this one sided terms made them turn into rogue taxi drivers. They have to overcharge for a living. This is nothing new and the government has done nothing to address this long existing problem. Stop this monopolistic business. Let them taxi driver earn their living. The taxi companies have been leeching taxi drivers hard work for God knows how many years.
If Najib want to talk about service to the people, this is his chance. By stopping taxi monopoly, the government can defer raising taxi fares as the take home income will be much better for the taxi drivers. They might not resort to overcharging or flouting meter ruling. As a result, he’ll make millions of passengers happy. That’s 25,000 votes from taxi drivers plus a few million votes from happy passengers.
MIC THREATENING THE PRIME MINISTER? BE MY GUEST!
Please go ahead and do it. We’re not affected by it. Who are these people to claim that they deserve more?
MIC threatened to leave the cabinet for not having major representation in the cabinet. The question they should ask themselves is whether they merit bigger role in the cabinet?
Sorry to say this, if I was given the choice to select my own cabinet, MIC won’t be getting a single seat. They don’t deserve to be in the cabinet.
They claim to represents the Indians but the reality is the Indians are turning to PKR for help.
MIC have been representing the Indians since its inception but till today there weren’t significant changes on the Indian community in economy and social structure.
When PKR together Hindraf offered to take that role the Indians reluctantly accepted it.
Reluctant because they don’t see helping the Indian community outside the government can do much. But they accepted because MIC representing them in the government didn’t do much either.
Today the Indians are taking chances with PKR. I don’t know how are they doing, but lets wait till next election and ask again whether they’re well taken care by the opposition. If the opposition is doing a good job, I guess it’ll be another futile attempt like Bukit Selambau.
Everybody knows how much the majority Indians hates Samy Vellu. But from what I can see today, it seems the MIC president is deaf or immune to criticism. He’s not listening to what the majority Indian wants which is for him to step down.
He staying put shows how much power crazy he is. Till today he didn’t any clear succession plan as if he wants to stay for as long as possible. The grassroots in MIC have rise up. They have to tell him to his face that they don’t want him. He’s a liability to MIC and BN as a whole. Bukit
Selambau proves how much the Indians don’t want him and BN have to be the victim.
So back to the issue about threatening Najib, please go ahead and threaten the Prime Minister. MIC quitting the cabinet will give the chance for Najib to honor those who performed better than Samy Vellu. Why I mentioned ‘Samy Vellu’ not MIC? Because he is the root of all problems in MIC. MIC and BN are just victims of his irresponsible and power hungry attitude.
MIC threatened to leave the cabinet for not having major representation in the cabinet. The question they should ask themselves is whether they merit bigger role in the cabinet?
Sorry to say this, if I was given the choice to select my own cabinet, MIC won’t be getting a single seat. They don’t deserve to be in the cabinet.
They claim to represents the Indians but the reality is the Indians are turning to PKR for help.
MIC have been representing the Indians since its inception but till today there weren’t significant changes on the Indian community in economy and social structure.
When PKR together Hindraf offered to take that role the Indians reluctantly accepted it.
Reluctant because they don’t see helping the Indian community outside the government can do much. But they accepted because MIC representing them in the government didn’t do much either.
Today the Indians are taking chances with PKR. I don’t know how are they doing, but lets wait till next election and ask again whether they’re well taken care by the opposition. If the opposition is doing a good job, I guess it’ll be another futile attempt like Bukit Selambau.
Everybody knows how much the majority Indians hates Samy Vellu. But from what I can see today, it seems the MIC president is deaf or immune to criticism. He’s not listening to what the majority Indian wants which is for him to step down.
He staying put shows how much power crazy he is. Till today he didn’t any clear succession plan as if he wants to stay for as long as possible. The grassroots in MIC have rise up. They have to tell him to his face that they don’t want him. He’s a liability to MIC and BN as a whole. Bukit
Selambau proves how much the Indians don’t want him and BN have to be the victim.
So back to the issue about threatening Najib, please go ahead and threaten the Prime Minister. MIC quitting the cabinet will give the chance for Najib to honor those who performed better than Samy Vellu. Why I mentioned ‘Samy Vellu’ not MIC? Because he is the root of all problems in MIC. MIC and BN are just victims of his irresponsible and power hungry attitude.
RED SHIRT PROTESTERS IN MALAYSIA?
The Thais have their red shirts protesters, yellow and blue too. I’m not sure about other colours but I’m not surprised if they have protesters in rainbow colors.
Yesterday show proof how the people’s power can influence government decision. It’s not far, what happened is just across the border up north.
Can we see that happening in Malaysia? Why not? I think it can happen in Malaysia. ‘Bersih’ rally showed how far we have gone and how far are we willing to submit ourselves to the cause.
The government have to take heed the current situation in Thailand. We have seen how the people’s power in Indonesia and their reform movement had influence Malaysian to go out to the street to express their anger.
We don’t want this to happen again. But we know what we’re capable to do. I hope the new government would not push us to the corner and make us release our demons.
Pak Lah made us do that. Despite being free from the colonial power, our freedom has been retarded by various methods. ISA has been used rather frequently and once has been used for someone’s safety. How ridiculous can that be?
The government doesn’t have to do much to keep the peace we’re enjoying today. What the government and the cabinet need to do is to make sure our rights are taken care, equality in every aspect of life (this is debatable), no abuse of power etc.
In a nutshell, take care the country like it should be. There shouldn’t be any flip-flopping decision, mismanagement, corruption and wastage of government’s money and resources.
If the new cabinet performs, there’s nothing to worry about. The rakyat will be extremely happy if the cabinet performs and the only party that would be unhappy is Pakatan Rakyat.
Najib have to make sure that his cabinet performs. And he mustn’t succumb to reasoning from Ministers that failed to do so.
Najib must not fail to take action against those who didn’t perform. Failure to do so will force the rakyat to take action. And once this happen, it’s not good for the nation.
I hope Najib will continue to listen to the rakyat. If he fails, he’ll be another Pak Lah. Visiting Petaling Street, Brickfields and Pantai Dalam is a good start. I remember when Pak Lah visited the Immigration Department in Damansara. Unfortunately it was his first and last spot check.
I hope Najib can do this regularly. The rakyat would be happy to see their Prime Minister face to face outside the idiot box. It’s a good PR too because nothing beats interpersonal communication.
Yesterday show proof how the people’s power can influence government decision. It’s not far, what happened is just across the border up north.
Can we see that happening in Malaysia? Why not? I think it can happen in Malaysia. ‘Bersih’ rally showed how far we have gone and how far are we willing to submit ourselves to the cause.
The government have to take heed the current situation in Thailand. We have seen how the people’s power in Indonesia and their reform movement had influence Malaysian to go out to the street to express their anger.
We don’t want this to happen again. But we know what we’re capable to do. I hope the new government would not push us to the corner and make us release our demons.
Pak Lah made us do that. Despite being free from the colonial power, our freedom has been retarded by various methods. ISA has been used rather frequently and once has been used for someone’s safety. How ridiculous can that be?
The government doesn’t have to do much to keep the peace we’re enjoying today. What the government and the cabinet need to do is to make sure our rights are taken care, equality in every aspect of life (this is debatable), no abuse of power etc.
In a nutshell, take care the country like it should be. There shouldn’t be any flip-flopping decision, mismanagement, corruption and wastage of government’s money and resources.
If the new cabinet performs, there’s nothing to worry about. The rakyat will be extremely happy if the cabinet performs and the only party that would be unhappy is Pakatan Rakyat.
Najib have to make sure that his cabinet performs. And he mustn’t succumb to reasoning from Ministers that failed to do so.
Najib must not fail to take action against those who didn’t perform. Failure to do so will force the rakyat to take action. And once this happen, it’s not good for the nation.
I hope Najib will continue to listen to the rakyat. If he fails, he’ll be another Pak Lah. Visiting Petaling Street, Brickfields and Pantai Dalam is a good start. I remember when Pak Lah visited the Immigration Department in Damansara. Unfortunately it was his first and last spot check.
I hope Najib can do this regularly. The rakyat would be happy to see their Prime Minister face to face outside the idiot box. It’s a good PR too because nothing beats interpersonal communication.
Dua Bukit Satu Batang
Like any other Prime Minister, our soon to be Prime Minister would definitely want to set his own style of managing this country. He has his own vision and wants to step away from the shadows of Pak Lah and Tun Dr. Mahathir.
There are many things he can do differently. For a start he can undo some of the mistakes from the past. First he can start with PLUS Highway. I’m not saying it’s a mistake. I think PLUS is one of the most significant legacies from Tun Dr.Mahathir but unfortunately it also come at a cost.
Tun Dr.Mahathir might argue that we must pay for development and nothing comes free of charge. Yes, I agree but the question is, at what cost?
PLUS is no more of a ‘kemudahan’ but more of a ‘kesusahan’. The cost of travelling on a PLUS highway is ridiculously high. The poor and lower middle class have to live outside KL because of expensive property and rental within the city. Most have to travel between Nilai, Seremban and Rawang. But unfortunately the cost to travel to KL is a bane for them.
As a start I would like to suggest the government to buy out PLUS Highway. By controlling the highway, the government has the rights to lower the toll charges to ease our burden. This move will also help to reduce cost of transportation which indirectly will help to lower the price of Malaysian products.
I’m no economist but I believe PLUS Highway can also be the government’ cash cow. Even after lowering the toll rates, the government will still be able to generate profits from it. And they’ll be able to recoup the money spent for the buy -out way before 2020.
If he ever decides to buy over PLUS Highway, maybe he should consider LDP too. At the rate traffic driving thru the highway today, the operator is milking this cash cow to the max. Once they bought the LDP, the government can also milk the cash cow. But they (government) can do better by giving the milk away for the rakyat to share.
I don’t see buying over these 2 highways as a burden to the government. I see it as a strategic investment. You can’t go wrong with PLUS and LDP.
Next, should be the crooked bridge. He should re-start this project (if there is such possibility).
He’s undoing Pak Lah ‘stop work order’. It may look like adding some fine points to Tun Dr.Mahathir’s legacy but I think It’s making things right, doing something for the people.
With these, Najib can start with a mind of its own. He’s making decision for the betterment of the country. Something his predecessor failed to handle.
Najib need to start with a ‘bang’, not with “kerja bersama saya, bukan untuk saya” rhetoric. By taking action it’ll show that Najib mean business. And no other action as big as buying over PLUS Highway and re-start (if possible) crooked bridge.
The rakyat is waiting anxiously. We’re wondering what will be Najib’s first action as a Prime Minister. I sincerely hope Najib won’t cancel the 2nd Penang Bridge like what his predecessor did with the crooked bridge.
Whatever it is, the ball is in Najib’s court. He can choose to sit quietly in the office or immediately start working and making decision for the people. If done correctly and swiftly, the rakyat may show gratitude by giving him ‘2 bukit & 1 batang’.
There are many things he can do differently. For a start he can undo some of the mistakes from the past. First he can start with PLUS Highway. I’m not saying it’s a mistake. I think PLUS is one of the most significant legacies from Tun Dr.Mahathir but unfortunately it also come at a cost.
Tun Dr.Mahathir might argue that we must pay for development and nothing comes free of charge. Yes, I agree but the question is, at what cost?
PLUS is no more of a ‘kemudahan’ but more of a ‘kesusahan’. The cost of travelling on a PLUS highway is ridiculously high. The poor and lower middle class have to live outside KL because of expensive property and rental within the city. Most have to travel between Nilai, Seremban and Rawang. But unfortunately the cost to travel to KL is a bane for them.
As a start I would like to suggest the government to buy out PLUS Highway. By controlling the highway, the government has the rights to lower the toll charges to ease our burden. This move will also help to reduce cost of transportation which indirectly will help to lower the price of Malaysian products.
I’m no economist but I believe PLUS Highway can also be the government’ cash cow. Even after lowering the toll rates, the government will still be able to generate profits from it. And they’ll be able to recoup the money spent for the buy -out way before 2020.
If he ever decides to buy over PLUS Highway, maybe he should consider LDP too. At the rate traffic driving thru the highway today, the operator is milking this cash cow to the max. Once they bought the LDP, the government can also milk the cash cow. But they (government) can do better by giving the milk away for the rakyat to share.
I don’t see buying over these 2 highways as a burden to the government. I see it as a strategic investment. You can’t go wrong with PLUS and LDP.
Next, should be the crooked bridge. He should re-start this project (if there is such possibility).
He’s undoing Pak Lah ‘stop work order’. It may look like adding some fine points to Tun Dr.Mahathir’s legacy but I think It’s making things right, doing something for the people.
With these, Najib can start with a mind of its own. He’s making decision for the betterment of the country. Something his predecessor failed to handle.
Najib need to start with a ‘bang’, not with “kerja bersama saya, bukan untuk saya” rhetoric. By taking action it’ll show that Najib mean business. And no other action as big as buying over PLUS Highway and re-start (if possible) crooked bridge.
The rakyat is waiting anxiously. We’re wondering what will be Najib’s first action as a Prime Minister. I sincerely hope Najib won’t cancel the 2nd Penang Bridge like what his predecessor did with the crooked bridge.
Whatever it is, the ball is in Najib’s court. He can choose to sit quietly in the office or immediately start working and making decision for the people. If done correctly and swiftly, the rakyat may show gratitude by giving him ‘2 bukit & 1 batang’.
NEW KITCHEN CABINET OR JUST NEW COAT OF PAINT?
The battle for supremacy is over. Now is the time for him to elect his new cabinet.
MCA has proposed a few names. I’m not sure about MIC but I don’t think they have any bargaining power. Beggars can’t be chooser.
I’m not surprised if there is a lot of lobbying going around in Putrajaya. It’s part of human nature. When we human decide to go for power, we’ll go all out for it. We’ll send flowers, chocolates, greet him at the airport and even wait for him outside the toilet and I’m not surprised either if they’ll go after his mom. Anything goes.
I understand his predicaments. No one like to be in a position where they have to choose.
Whether it’s good or bad, someone has to be left behind and in this case, a few are going to be left behind.
I hope he’ll make good judgement to leave behind all the bad apples. It may limit his choice but at least those chosen are clean.
There are a few difficult choice. Shahrizat may push for a position despite losing the general election. She’ll use her win at the recent UMNO election to seek for a position in the cabinet. So does KJ and Rosnah. I hope they stay put at their respective wing and concentrate at winning back the hearts of Malaysian youngsters. They have a lot of work to do there and I don’t they need another responsibility in the form of Minister-ship.
Another group of people watching at the sideline are the Sabahan. They’ll request more active role in federal government. No one can deny the fact that Sabah currently holds the key to BN’s survival in Parliament. And same goes with UMNNO.
Najib can’t take lightly their contribution at the recent General Election and they want to be rewarded for their loyalty. At least 2 position at Minister level will be courted by them. And I think they deserve it. Denying them their share of the cake is akin to denying their contribution to UMNO. You don’t want to upset the Sabahan.
What about the Menteri Besar club? How many will be retained? Will we see the departure of Ali
Rustam or give him full reign of power to make a return come next UMNO election? Right now
Najib is in an awkward positon. Kicking him out from Melaka is like burning the bridge between the UMNO eleits and the grassroots. No one can deny Ali’s influence at the grassroots. But no one can also deny the hatred towards him outside and to some extent within UMNO. He’s both loved and hated. That’s Ali for you.
But what about other Menteri Besar? I think the safest is Ghani Osman. He seems to be managing the state quite well except for some displeasure with Iskandar Region. They think they gave away Iskandar Region easily to Pak Lah and his superfriends. We’ll wait and see whether Iskandar Region will work out as planned.
Whatever it is, I hope he’ll make wise decision. This is about the country. They’re his generals not Pak Mat, Ah Chong or Muthu in local JKKK or Ruku Tetangga. His decision will determine the direction this country will take. It’s a do-or-die mission. The future of UMNO is in his hands.
We can’t afford to have kitchen cabinet corrupts and laggards to govern this country. Get the best for the country and please no 4th floor clowns gate keeping his office. The rakyat need better access to him after all the rakyat owns him!
MCA has proposed a few names. I’m not sure about MIC but I don’t think they have any bargaining power. Beggars can’t be chooser.
I’m not surprised if there is a lot of lobbying going around in Putrajaya. It’s part of human nature. When we human decide to go for power, we’ll go all out for it. We’ll send flowers, chocolates, greet him at the airport and even wait for him outside the toilet and I’m not surprised either if they’ll go after his mom. Anything goes.
I understand his predicaments. No one like to be in a position where they have to choose.
Whether it’s good or bad, someone has to be left behind and in this case, a few are going to be left behind.
I hope he’ll make good judgement to leave behind all the bad apples. It may limit his choice but at least those chosen are clean.
There are a few difficult choice. Shahrizat may push for a position despite losing the general election. She’ll use her win at the recent UMNO election to seek for a position in the cabinet. So does KJ and Rosnah. I hope they stay put at their respective wing and concentrate at winning back the hearts of Malaysian youngsters. They have a lot of work to do there and I don’t they need another responsibility in the form of Minister-ship.
Another group of people watching at the sideline are the Sabahan. They’ll request more active role in federal government. No one can deny the fact that Sabah currently holds the key to BN’s survival in Parliament. And same goes with UMNNO.
Najib can’t take lightly their contribution at the recent General Election and they want to be rewarded for their loyalty. At least 2 position at Minister level will be courted by them. And I think they deserve it. Denying them their share of the cake is akin to denying their contribution to UMNO. You don’t want to upset the Sabahan.
What about the Menteri Besar club? How many will be retained? Will we see the departure of Ali
Rustam or give him full reign of power to make a return come next UMNO election? Right now
Najib is in an awkward positon. Kicking him out from Melaka is like burning the bridge between the UMNO eleits and the grassroots. No one can deny Ali’s influence at the grassroots. But no one can also deny the hatred towards him outside and to some extent within UMNO. He’s both loved and hated. That’s Ali for you.
But what about other Menteri Besar? I think the safest is Ghani Osman. He seems to be managing the state quite well except for some displeasure with Iskandar Region. They think they gave away Iskandar Region easily to Pak Lah and his superfriends. We’ll wait and see whether Iskandar Region will work out as planned.
Whatever it is, I hope he’ll make wise decision. This is about the country. They’re his generals not Pak Mat, Ah Chong or Muthu in local JKKK or Ruku Tetangga. His decision will determine the direction this country will take. It’s a do-or-die mission. The future of UMNO is in his hands.
We can’t afford to have kitchen cabinet corrupts and laggards to govern this country. Get the best for the country and please no 4th floor clowns gate keeping his office. The rakyat need better access to him after all the rakyat owns him!
SHUT UP AND DANCE!
Shut up and dance to the tune that I suggested. That’s what going on in Pas. The former Perak Menteri Besar was told by PAS to avoid speaking to the media.
It seems he has very tight schedule and don’t have time to speak to the media. Is that true?
How pity. They must be using him to the max. I hope to see him doing that at his current state constituent.
You don’t need a genius to figure behind this ruling was to avoid anything from being misquoted.
It’s a well known fact that the opposition parties have problems with the mainstream media (MSM) and so does the government too. They have the alternative media giving them a handful.
The opposition always argues that the MSM have the tendency to misquote or give wrongly interpret their statement.
But I don’t see this as a reason for you to stop anyone from talking to the media. Tun Dr.Mahathir was often misquoted by the foreign media and he didn’t see this as a problem. He confronted them and used their own weapon against them and in then end the foreign media has to eat their words.
What you need is someone articulate and knowledgeable. With these characteristics in you, it will arm you against any negative perceptions or verbal abuse.
These characteristics served Tun Dr.Mahathir well when he faces foreign media. He’s well prepared and those who decide to go head on against him must be well prepared too or he will verbally strip them in public.
I don’t think Nizar is as articulate and knowledgeable as Tun Dr.Mahathir.He fumbled many a times when he was questioned by the media. In order not to repeat this, Pas decided to bar him from speaking to the media and use his busy schedule as an excuse.
Both sides have been using media extensively to sweeten whatever they’re doing. In this by-election season, the media is going at full steam. No one can accuse any media being bias. Come to think of it, all media are bias, which is nothing bad. It’s up to us to think and decide which is best to believe.
Whenever any media misquote or wrongly interpret anything, the onus is on us. We are well armed with a fully functional brain, so we decide whether to accept or rubbish it.
So don’t blame the media. Blame the source for not being well armed to face the media and blame the public too for believing without any question.
The media has its own set of problem too. They have ‘hearing’ problem hence often misquoting and they also have manipulators editing the stories hence the interpretation problems. But everyone knows about these and yet they still complain about media being bias. It is akin to addiction, any form of addiction. You know it’s not good yet you still want it.
It seems he has very tight schedule and don’t have time to speak to the media. Is that true?
How pity. They must be using him to the max. I hope to see him doing that at his current state constituent.
You don’t need a genius to figure behind this ruling was to avoid anything from being misquoted.
It’s a well known fact that the opposition parties have problems with the mainstream media (MSM) and so does the government too. They have the alternative media giving them a handful.
The opposition always argues that the MSM have the tendency to misquote or give wrongly interpret their statement.
But I don’t see this as a reason for you to stop anyone from talking to the media. Tun Dr.Mahathir was often misquoted by the foreign media and he didn’t see this as a problem. He confronted them and used their own weapon against them and in then end the foreign media has to eat their words.
What you need is someone articulate and knowledgeable. With these characteristics in you, it will arm you against any negative perceptions or verbal abuse.
These characteristics served Tun Dr.Mahathir well when he faces foreign media. He’s well prepared and those who decide to go head on against him must be well prepared too or he will verbally strip them in public.
I don’t think Nizar is as articulate and knowledgeable as Tun Dr.Mahathir.He fumbled many a times when he was questioned by the media. In order not to repeat this, Pas decided to bar him from speaking to the media and use his busy schedule as an excuse.
Both sides have been using media extensively to sweeten whatever they’re doing. In this by-election season, the media is going at full steam. No one can accuse any media being bias. Come to think of it, all media are bias, which is nothing bad. It’s up to us to think and decide which is best to believe.
Whenever any media misquote or wrongly interpret anything, the onus is on us. We are well armed with a fully functional brain, so we decide whether to accept or rubbish it.
So don’t blame the media. Blame the source for not being well armed to face the media and blame the public too for believing without any question.
The media has its own set of problem too. They have ‘hearing’ problem hence often misquoting and they also have manipulators editing the stories hence the interpretation problems. But everyone knows about these and yet they still complain about media being bias. It is akin to addiction, any form of addiction. You know it’s not good yet you still want it.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
15 Candidates For Bukit Selambau, Can They Really Represent The Rakyat?
15 candidates vying for 1 spot! That’s a first for Malaysia. Nothing we’ve ever seen before. Election Commision gave some hint that there will be many candidates for Bukit Selambau.
Many came for the forms before the nomination earlier this morning.
The numbers of candidates gave us hope that democracy is alive and kicking in Malaysia. Not that I lose hope to see a fair election but it opens up another window of opportunity for those who think they can serve the country outside the 2 coalition parties.
In the history of this middle aged nation, we’ve never seen as many as 15 candidates offering their service at any state or parliamentary election. I don’t have any problem with this. I don’t care if the whole kampong offering themselves as candidates. It doesn’t matter.
But what matters most is their ability to service to the rakyat. How serious are they? Can they really offer their service effectively without aligning themselves to either Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat?
History has proven that they need a huge machinery to manage their constituents. Yes they can balk the trend but how far can they go and how long can they last?
The single female candidate mentioned the reason for her contesting this by election because there are 60% female voters in this constituency. I have nothing against woman but I think her reason behind it is a bit suspect. Saying that is akin to ignoring the male voters.
Has she done any research on voter’s trend? Did Teresa Kok win because there are more female voters at her constituency? She’s supposed to represent the rakyat not a specific gender. And can she carry the gender torch alone outside 2 coalition parties in fighting for gender equality. I hope she’s not being gender specific in her campaign.
I hope all the candidates won’t use the ‘independence’ ticket as a bargaining tool. We don’t want to see any indie candidates jumps to either PR or BN. Once they decided to fight as an independence, they should always be independent and not align to any camp.
The rakyat in Bukit Selambau should ask the candidates to clarify their stand and pledge loyalty to their indie cause. If the reason for their contest as independent was because they were dropped from their respective parties, the rakyat should reject them. You don’t need a YB who has no sense of loyalty.
Being a YB is not an easy task what more when they’re an independent. They don’t have financial prowess to go against PR and BN. Once they won, another headache waiting for them.
Being an YB need a lot of sacrifice, not only money but also time and family. You need to have your family support behind you. You also need to have a good accountant behind you.
To manage a constituency needs a substantial amount of money. A YB gets an annual expenses for them to spend on their constituency. Mind you, this money amounting between 200k to 500k can disappear within minutes. Almost everyday the YB wiil encounter request for sponsorship. There are also request for new roads, some money for their children’s wedding or request for a new grass cutter. Allthis need money and the allocation given is not enough.
This is unknown territory. Many first time YBs didn’t expect this and they were overwhelmed by it. This cause headache and stress unto them. Many wished they didn’t sign the nomination forms. Many wished they should quit before things gone out of hand.
To the magnificent 13 (minus candidates from BN & PR), have you had a deep thought before you nominate yourself? You are considered a traitor if you take sides. You should be neutral and independent. That was what the rakyat voted for, an independent!
Many came for the forms before the nomination earlier this morning.
The numbers of candidates gave us hope that democracy is alive and kicking in Malaysia. Not that I lose hope to see a fair election but it opens up another window of opportunity for those who think they can serve the country outside the 2 coalition parties.
In the history of this middle aged nation, we’ve never seen as many as 15 candidates offering their service at any state or parliamentary election. I don’t have any problem with this. I don’t care if the whole kampong offering themselves as candidates. It doesn’t matter.
But what matters most is their ability to service to the rakyat. How serious are they? Can they really offer their service effectively without aligning themselves to either Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat?
History has proven that they need a huge machinery to manage their constituents. Yes they can balk the trend but how far can they go and how long can they last?
The single female candidate mentioned the reason for her contesting this by election because there are 60% female voters in this constituency. I have nothing against woman but I think her reason behind it is a bit suspect. Saying that is akin to ignoring the male voters.
Has she done any research on voter’s trend? Did Teresa Kok win because there are more female voters at her constituency? She’s supposed to represent the rakyat not a specific gender. And can she carry the gender torch alone outside 2 coalition parties in fighting for gender equality. I hope she’s not being gender specific in her campaign.
I hope all the candidates won’t use the ‘independence’ ticket as a bargaining tool. We don’t want to see any indie candidates jumps to either PR or BN. Once they decided to fight as an independence, they should always be independent and not align to any camp.
The rakyat in Bukit Selambau should ask the candidates to clarify their stand and pledge loyalty to their indie cause. If the reason for their contest as independent was because they were dropped from their respective parties, the rakyat should reject them. You don’t need a YB who has no sense of loyalty.
Being a YB is not an easy task what more when they’re an independent. They don’t have financial prowess to go against PR and BN. Once they won, another headache waiting for them.
Being an YB need a lot of sacrifice, not only money but also time and family. You need to have your family support behind you. You also need to have a good accountant behind you.
To manage a constituency needs a substantial amount of money. A YB gets an annual expenses for them to spend on their constituency. Mind you, this money amounting between 200k to 500k can disappear within minutes. Almost everyday the YB wiil encounter request for sponsorship. There are also request for new roads, some money for their children’s wedding or request for a new grass cutter. Allthis need money and the allocation given is not enough.
This is unknown territory. Many first time YBs didn’t expect this and they were overwhelmed by it. This cause headache and stress unto them. Many wished they didn’t sign the nomination forms. Many wished they should quit before things gone out of hand.
To the magnificent 13 (minus candidates from BN & PR), have you had a deep thought before you nominate yourself? You are considered a traitor if you take sides. You should be neutral and independent. That was what the rakyat voted for, an independent!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Youth Without Youth
I just saw the latest film from Francis Ford Coppola titled ‘Youth without Youth’. How did I find the story? Well it’s neither like ‘The Godfather’ nor ‘Apocalypse Now’. Infact I didn’t get what he was trying to say. I don’t blame him. I think my mental and physical self wasn’t in the mood to watch something heavy.
I was at the PWTC on Thursday. I think the mental and physical state of some of the Perwakilan needs some flushing with ‘Clorox’. They don’t reflect their age, and I think some of them are worst than Benjamin Button in his teen.
Najib spoke about bringing changes into UMNO and also BN. But look at the current youth, can they bring changes? Some of them are brash, arrogant and rude to the core. I was hoping to see a more civilize contest for the youth position. But unfortunately the supporters never heard the word ‘civilize’.
I don’t agree with the election result for the Youth Chief, but I have to accept it. None from UMNO can complaint about it as they’re part of the system that condones the democratic system in the party. Like Najib said, it’s high time for revamp in election mechanism.
We can’t let the decision to elect party leadership being left in the hands of selected few. They are prone to being bribe and tend to decide for themselves, and not for what the divisions have decided earlier.
Look at the nomination stage. Mukhriz was leading and yet he got the lowest vote. How can that happen? Nominations are signals from the majority members but we unwillingly give opportunity for the Perwakilan to change the grassroots’ choice based on their qualms and fancies. I short, the Perwakilan betrayed what the grassroots’ have decided before hand.
The youth are giving the wrong signal to the general public. They accepted a leader proven guilty for corruption. It looks as if they condone corruption.
Besides than the Perwakilan, I blame the Lembaga Disiplin for this embarrassing result. KJ was found guilty and they let him off the hook with a warning. If you’re guilty then you’re guilty.
There’s no 2 way about it.
I made myself clear on my sentiment on the Youth election. It’s a victory reluctantly accepted by the Youth majority. But life has to go on. And it’s KJ’s responsibility to prove his worth.
Everyone is watching him.
What I would love to see is that the Youth division plays a more active role as a watchdog rather than being a government lap dog. They shouldn’t hold back any criticism towards the government and the leaders in government should accept it positively.
In fact they are the one who should be the first to react to any wrong doings. By being the first to criticize the government, they are not giving room to the opposition to condemn and sensationalize the issue.
A Youth division without its youth spirit is more to a cat than a tiger. I sincerely hope the Youth division won’t turn into a coward feline that forgets how to roars. But please eat more brain food than Nasi Lemak. There are too many ‘fats’ in the brain. The speeches and debates are mere rhetoric and lack of substance.
I was at the PWTC on Thursday. I think the mental and physical state of some of the Perwakilan needs some flushing with ‘Clorox’. They don’t reflect their age, and I think some of them are worst than Benjamin Button in his teen.
Najib spoke about bringing changes into UMNO and also BN. But look at the current youth, can they bring changes? Some of them are brash, arrogant and rude to the core. I was hoping to see a more civilize contest for the youth position. But unfortunately the supporters never heard the word ‘civilize’.
I don’t agree with the election result for the Youth Chief, but I have to accept it. None from UMNO can complaint about it as they’re part of the system that condones the democratic system in the party. Like Najib said, it’s high time for revamp in election mechanism.
We can’t let the decision to elect party leadership being left in the hands of selected few. They are prone to being bribe and tend to decide for themselves, and not for what the divisions have decided earlier.
Look at the nomination stage. Mukhriz was leading and yet he got the lowest vote. How can that happen? Nominations are signals from the majority members but we unwillingly give opportunity for the Perwakilan to change the grassroots’ choice based on their qualms and fancies. I short, the Perwakilan betrayed what the grassroots’ have decided before hand.
The youth are giving the wrong signal to the general public. They accepted a leader proven guilty for corruption. It looks as if they condone corruption.
Besides than the Perwakilan, I blame the Lembaga Disiplin for this embarrassing result. KJ was found guilty and they let him off the hook with a warning. If you’re guilty then you’re guilty.
There’s no 2 way about it.
I made myself clear on my sentiment on the Youth election. It’s a victory reluctantly accepted by the Youth majority. But life has to go on. And it’s KJ’s responsibility to prove his worth.
Everyone is watching him.
What I would love to see is that the Youth division plays a more active role as a watchdog rather than being a government lap dog. They shouldn’t hold back any criticism towards the government and the leaders in government should accept it positively.
In fact they are the one who should be the first to react to any wrong doings. By being the first to criticize the government, they are not giving room to the opposition to condemn and sensationalize the issue.
A Youth division without its youth spirit is more to a cat than a tiger. I sincerely hope the Youth division won’t turn into a coward feline that forgets how to roars. But please eat more brain food than Nasi Lemak. There are too many ‘fats’ in the brain. The speeches and debates are mere rhetoric and lack of substance.
New Election and New Leader
It’s all over. And now it’s back to work. Oops! Not actually. A new kitchen cabinet lineup is in the pipeline. We shall see one in the next few weeks. But first I would like to congratulate those who were elected. To the losers, don’t lose sleep.
Back to the kitchen cabinet, I hope the new lineup will spear head the reforms not only in UMNO but BN as a whole. Despite the current cabinet is only about a year old, it doesn’t mean that it should be left as it is.
In the past year since the last general election we’ve seen many changes within the component parties where the young guns replaced the old guards. But the question now, “Are they prepared for the responsibilities?”
Many will argue that these young guns or new generation of leaders should be given chance to prove their worth and I agree with that. But at the same time, those who propose bringing in new blood should also realize that this is neither the time nor the place for trial and error or experiment. We’re talking about is managing the country not a stable with ‘kuda padi’.
The cabinet ministers should be those who’re experienced enough to handle it. You’re talking about managing people, wealth, resources, foreign relations, and most importantly the country.
You can’t have a first time parliamentarian to lead a ministry.
We shouldn’t create a culture where someone can be fast tracked to a full minister. This is dangerous as we have so many young leaders who always dream big. Many ridiculously dreamt of being the Prime Minister on their first attempt at parliament position.
The current cabinet shows the lack of option for the soon-to-be-former-Prime Minister. I don’t know whether he really have no choice with many casualties at the last general election, or he simply over looked several potentials ministers or he was guided by someone with malicious intention.
But whatever it is, the soon-to-be Prime Minister has an open opportunity to undo the damage.
This is something repair-able. Get the right person in place and it’ll be a good start to reform the government and take this country out of economic catastrophe.
Despite that, there are some ministries that I think should be left in its current form. Let the minister continues with whatever they’re doing. Some of them are conducting reforms within their ministry.
I think the Information Minister and Education Minister should be left alone. I would love to see Norraesah given bigger responsibility. She has the capability to spearhead MITI. And don’t forget that Murugiah guy. He seems to be everywhere and always in immaculate attire under scorching sun. Maybe the soon-to-be Prime Minister should consider rewarding him with more responsibilities.
Last but not least, I would also like to see Ibrahim Ali in the kitchen cabinet too. He’s not a BN MP, but it doesn’t mean he can’t serve the country as a minister. We shall wait n see about this.
Back to the kitchen cabinet, I hope the new lineup will spear head the reforms not only in UMNO but BN as a whole. Despite the current cabinet is only about a year old, it doesn’t mean that it should be left as it is.
In the past year since the last general election we’ve seen many changes within the component parties where the young guns replaced the old guards. But the question now, “Are they prepared for the responsibilities?”
Many will argue that these young guns or new generation of leaders should be given chance to prove their worth and I agree with that. But at the same time, those who propose bringing in new blood should also realize that this is neither the time nor the place for trial and error or experiment. We’re talking about is managing the country not a stable with ‘kuda padi’.
The cabinet ministers should be those who’re experienced enough to handle it. You’re talking about managing people, wealth, resources, foreign relations, and most importantly the country.
You can’t have a first time parliamentarian to lead a ministry.
We shouldn’t create a culture where someone can be fast tracked to a full minister. This is dangerous as we have so many young leaders who always dream big. Many ridiculously dreamt of being the Prime Minister on their first attempt at parliament position.
The current cabinet shows the lack of option for the soon-to-be-former-Prime Minister. I don’t know whether he really have no choice with many casualties at the last general election, or he simply over looked several potentials ministers or he was guided by someone with malicious intention.
But whatever it is, the soon-to-be Prime Minister has an open opportunity to undo the damage.
This is something repair-able. Get the right person in place and it’ll be a good start to reform the government and take this country out of economic catastrophe.
Despite that, there are some ministries that I think should be left in its current form. Let the minister continues with whatever they’re doing. Some of them are conducting reforms within their ministry.
I think the Information Minister and Education Minister should be left alone. I would love to see Norraesah given bigger responsibility. She has the capability to spearhead MITI. And don’t forget that Murugiah guy. He seems to be everywhere and always in immaculate attire under scorching sun. Maybe the soon-to-be Prime Minister should consider rewarding him with more responsibilities.
Last but not least, I would also like to see Ibrahim Ali in the kitchen cabinet too. He’s not a BN MP, but it doesn’t mean he can’t serve the country as a minister. We shall wait n see about this.
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